According to a study by the US Department of Justice, people who are permitted to serve on juries in capital cases (death-qualified jurors) are more likely to convict a defendant than are people who are excluded from serving on capital juries because of their unwillingness to impose the death penalty (excludable jurors)1. Empirical evidence adduced in Lockhart also has shown that death-qualified juries are more likely than other jurors to convict a defendant. That is, death-qualified jurors are more likely than non-death-qualified jurors to vote for conviction when assessing the same sets of facts2.
Therefore, the answer is d. more likely to convict in criminal cases