[Magdalen] Jury Duty Anyone?

[Eleanor Braun]

Agreed, Roger.  Studies show people not opposed to the death penalty are
more inclined to convict.

Eleanor

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>   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.
>>   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".
>>   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).
>>   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.
>>         David S.
>>
>>
>