Wrongful Conviction Rates and Death Penalty Support: Acceptability Hypothesis in Japan by Eiichiro Watamura, Tomohiro Ioku

“…This study tested the hypothesis that presenting people with information about wrongful convictions that are considered an unacceptable cost of administering justice lowers support for the death penalty. We recruited 815 participants using an online crowdsourcing service in Japan, randomly assigned them to eight groups with varying combinations of presence or absence of information emphasizing losses caused by wrongful convictions and asked them to answer questions on the death penalty. …”
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Examining the differential effects of information about the death penalty on retributivists and non-retributivists in Japan: a refutation of Marshall's third hypothesis by Eiichiro Watamura, Tomohiro Ioku, Tomoya Mukai

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