Description: This paper discusses research on the factors affecting the rate of execution in the state in the Texas. Abstract: The Supreme Court of the United States, in Furman v. Georgia (1972), invalidated death penalty statutes across the country because offenders, under existing laws, were vulnerable to capricious sentencing. Despite attempts by states to reduce arbitrariness in the three decades since 'Furman' (1972), extra legal factors, particularly race, continue to influence every phase of capital punishment from the indictment to the sentence. The Court, in McCleskey v. Kemp (1987), refused to consider widespread racial bias as reason to overturn an individual's death sentence, but directed statistical analysts towards state legislators to affect change. In this paper, the author examines the effects of legal and extra legal factors to see if they continue to influence decision makers after the verdict. Specifically, the author examines the relationship between race of the offenders and race of the victims to see if that relationship is correlated with the length of time between conviction and execution. The author also considers the effects of the victim's cause of death, the reason the offender was eligible for the death penalty, and the nature of the relationship between the ...

Description: This poster discusses research on depression and obesity. The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between depression and obesity and to answer the question: does depression cause obesity, or does obesity cause depression, or both? The research survey will question the indirect factors caused by depression like the taking of anti-depressant medications, body temperature levels, and direct factor questions, like eating habits during depression.

Description: This poster discusses research on collectivist cultures and individualistic cultures. Authors look at what causes and prevents anxiety in various ethnic groups

Description: This poster discusses research on open-source software and their development teams. This research topic is on whether open-source software development tends to result in products that are of higher quality than their closed-source counterparts in terms of security, functionality, and ease-of-use.

Description: This poster discusses research on the effects of cocaine on the development of maggots and the effect on time of death. The authors' research focuses on the effect that cocaine has on maggot growth and how that affects determination of the time of death of an organism and what effect cocaine has on maggot growth and how that affects the use of maggots to determine time of death.