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Death Penalty Charging in Los Angeles County

An Illustrative Data Analysis Using Skeptical Priors

University of California, Los Angeles

RICHARD BERK

University of California, Los Angeles

WENZHI LI

University of California, Los Angeles

MARGARET FARRELL-ROSS

University of California, Los Angeles

The authors analyze death penalty charging data for Los Angeles County involving homicides from 1990 to 1994. The data were collected by the Los Angeles Times. This data set is one of the largest tabulations of homicide defendant data yet collected. A Bayesian logistic regression analysis is applied with a proper prior formulated to provide conservative inferences. The authors illustrate procedures for inferences for polytomous predictors and report three analyses with three partially overlapping sets of covariates.

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