The real travesty is that a death penalty is still a possibility in any society.
Were that not a plausible outcome, these jurors wouldn’t have had to wrestle with the moral dilemma of having their actions potentially lead to the death of another human.
I was once in a pool of jurors set to hear the penalty phase of a capital murder. I would never had been seated in a thousand years and it ended up in a deal anyway. But the Judge told us that if we chose the death penalty every juror has to sign the death warrant.
The though of my signature on a document like that still sends chills down my spine.
The real travesty is that a death penalty is still a possibility in any society.
Were that not a plausible outcome, these jurors wouldn’t have had to wrestle with the moral dilemma of having their actions potentially lead to the death of another human.
I was once in a pool of jurors set to hear the penalty phase of a capital murder. I would never had been seated in a thousand years and it ended up in a deal anyway. But the Judge told us that if we chose the death penalty every juror has to sign the death warrant.
The though of my signature on a document like that still sends chills down my spine.