Learning to kill: Why a small handful of counties generates the bulk of US death sentences

• Frank R. Baumgartner ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: frankb@unc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4193-4152

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• Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Political Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Benjamin W. Campbell,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Political Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Christian Caron,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Hailey Sherman

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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