Please answer all of the following questions.

1. When answering the following questions, please refer primarily to the article "Murder and Capital Punishment in the Evolving Context of the Post-Furman Era," as well as the supplemental reading on the scientific method.

here is the link of the article "Murder and Capital Punishment in the Evolving Context of the Post-Furman Era,"

https://www.proquest.com/openview/d2981af097bc1824af76f9e1f15d9be5/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=40555

• What is the general question or topic that the authors are interested in exploring?
• Do the authors engage in a literature review in the article and what, in general, did they conclude from it if they did?
• Do the authors mention that they are testing a particular theory or theoretical orientation?
• If so, what is the theory or theoretical orientation called?
• What, specifically, is one of the hypotheses they are testing?
• What method did they use to test this hypothesis?
• Is the method quantitative or qualitative?
• What is the independent variable and what is the dependent variable in this hypothesis?
• What do the authors conclude about the hypothesis (is there a correlation between the independent and dependent variables)?

2. Refer to the table below to answer the following questions:

Table 4. REGRESSION RESULTS WHERE MURDER RATES AND CAPITAL SENTENCING RATES ARE CONSIDERED, 1973-84 Independent Variables 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 % Metropolitan population .027 .015 . 108 . 007 . 040* * % Black population 331*#* . 326*** .259*** .250* * * .269*** Divorce rate . 503*** .613*** .680*** .579*** . 858*** % Poverty .073 -. 151 .041 .052 .211 Income inequality 48.7* 49.7* 46. 1* 39.0* 46.0** $ Unemployment . 109 .564** -.017 . 123 -.210 Region (0/1) -1,069 .645 .030 -. 146 -1.519 No. execution months . 056 -. 021 .037 .035 Death sentences (yr.t) .031 . 108 .065 -. 167 - . 162 -.479 Constant - 17.8* -18.3** -15.7* -13.9* -18.8*** R -8 24* * * . 853*** .799*** . 798*** . 864** * * * * P<.05 p>