You Want to Know Why Some States That Have the Death

Multiple Choice

You want to know why some states that have the death penalty as a punishment use it more than other states. In order to develop your design, you identify those states that have capital punishment and those that do not. Among those that do have capital punishment, you separate states by the following criteria: annual executions over the last 20 years; states with fewer than a certain number of annual executions over the last 20 years; and those states that have not executed in the last 20 years. What sampling method are you using?

A) convenience
B) quota
C) stratified
D) purposive