[Magdalen] Jury Duty Anyone?

[Roger Stokes]

The death penalty is illegal throughout Europe. I understand that in the 
USA in a trial where the death penalty is a possibility the jurors have 
to say, before the trial, that they are not opposed to the death penalty 
on principle. There seems to have been a failure of process here.

Roger

On 13/07/2017 17:53, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
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> There has been a trial of a previously convicted murderer
> who stabbed anew a  federal prison guard to death in one of the
> regional federal prisons.
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> The sentiment in the local media is for using
> the  death penalty, because the man is already in
> prison for life.  However, the jury could not agree on this, and
> he was awarded another life imprisonment.
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> I was appalled today to read front page, the names of the jurors for  this
> trial, and a list of how they voted.  It turns out that there was  only
> one juror against the death penalty.  Her name was printed,  along
> with the apparent reason for her vote:  "She has a son currently
> imprisoned".
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> Over and beyond any discussion of the death penalty itself, I'm
> wondering how frequently jury information is made so public, in
> this case by a US federal court (Scranton).
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> It would strike me as opening up the jurors to retribution, and
> would likely have a negative impact on willingness to serve on  jury duty.
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> David S.
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