Krishnamurthy

Arvind Krishnamurthy

Assistant Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State University
Chapter Member: Central Ohio SSN

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About Arvind

Krishnamurthy is a PhD student at Duke University.

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Contributions

America's Failed Efforts to Reform the Death Penalty

  • Frank R. Baumgartner
  • Marty A. Davidson
  • Kaneesha R. Johnson
Key Findings Brief,

In the News

Research discussed by "Introduction of Q4 Future Results to a Drop in Bitcoin Price," HiBusiness, May 9, 2018.
Research discussed by Jamie Redman, in "San Francisco Fed Says BTC-based Future Markets Played a Role in Price," Bitcoin.com, May 9, 2018.
Quoted by Dion Rabouin in "The Momentous Event That Caused Bitcoin to Peak on December 17, 2017," Yahoo! Finance, May 8, 2018.
Research discussed by Aaron Hankin, in "The Advent of Bitcoin Futures Sparked the Selloff from $20,000, Says San Francisco Fed," Market Watch, May 7, 2018.

Publications

"Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of Death Penalty" (with Frank R. Baumgartner, Marty A. Davidson, Kaneesha R. Johnson, and Colin Wilson) (Oxford University Press, 2018).

 Examines the record established through 40 years of experience with the “new and improved” death penalty since, in 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated all existing death penalty laws in its landmark Furman v. Georgia decision. Asks if the modern system has worked as intended, and have the states successfully targeted only a narrow class of particularly heinous crimes and the most deserving criminals for the ultimate punishment, or do various elements of caprice, bias, and arbitrariness continue to make the application of the death penalty akin to “being struck by lightning” as the Court noted in Furman?

"The Geographic Distribution of US Executions" (with Kaneesha R. Johnson, Elizabeth J. Wilson, Woody Gram, and Colin P. Wilson). Duke Journal of Law and Constitutional Law and Public Policy 11 (2016): 1-33.

Finds that a main determinant of whether an individual will be executed is not the crime they commit, but the jurisdiction’s experience with executing others. This is not acceptable—legally, morally, or constitutionally.