Running head: DEATH QUALIFICATION AND VERDICT Exposure to Capital Voir Dire May Not Increase Convictions Despite Increasing Pretrial Presumption of Guilt Joseph A. Vitriol John Jay College, City University of New York Margaret Bull Kovera John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York © 2018, American Psychological Association. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the final, authoritative version of the article. Please do not copy or cite without authors' permission. The final article will be available, upon publication, via its DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000304 Editor’s Note. Brian L. Cutler served as Action Editor for this article. Author Note Joseph A. Vitriol, John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York; Margaret Bull Kovera, Department of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Joseph A. Vitriol is now at Department of Psychology, Harvard University. This research was conducted in partial fulfillment of Joseph A. Vitriol’s master’s degree. Portions of this research were presented at the 2010 meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada, and the 2009 meeting of the American