Prior studies that have examined victim gender and the death penalty have tended to focus on the overall outcome of the case process (i.e., whether victim gender is related to ultimately receiving a death sentence). But focusing on the correlates of the final outcome ignores the varying influence that victim gender may have in the decision making of legal agents and jurors at different stages of the case process. In the current study, we examine two important decision-making stages in the larger case process: 1) the prosecutorial decision to seek the death penalty after a murder conviction and 2) the jury decision to impose the death penalty during the penalty phase of the trial. To better tease out where victim gender effects are manifested in the case process, we present regression results for victim gender and race (controlling for the core variables used in earlier analyses) both before and after taking into account sex-related victimization. Table 4 reports the effects of victim gender and race on the overall imposition of the death penalty (model 1), the prosecutor’s decision to seek the death penalty (model 2), and the jury’s decision to impose the death penalty (model 3) before controlling for sex-related victimization. As such, the control for rape is not included in these models and serves as a comparison for the stage-specific, decision-making findings presented in models 2 and 3.