That makes two of us but we are definatly in the minority here.
We load the system in favor of defendants as a way of minimizing the chance for error that would lead to conviction of an innocent party. It's to the point where with all the procedural safeguards that prosecuting a capital murder in Georgia - is so expensive that the cost of such a prosecution can consume a small central or south Georgia county's annual law enforcement budget. The incentive, when one finds a dead body in such a county, is to take it across the county line and make it someone else's problem. There has to be a way to safeguard against conviction of the innocent without making it so expensive.
This jury did the right thing here - and I was impressed in the post trial interview with the three members of the jury who spoke. O.J. was particularly lucky in the dumb jury that sat on his criminal case ("The DNA Evidence? you mean that scientific mumbo-jumbo - oh, we disregarded that!"
Anti-death penalty here, too.
I couldn't reconcile it with my faith.
Too many innocent people have been put to death, too many people convicted and on death row and later found out to be innocent and released. But, I suspect I am preaching to the choir here.
I'm not pro-death penalty
I thought I was strongly pro death until this case. Even though he probably did it I just can't help but ask-how was she murdered and why isn't there more physical evidence linking him to the murder. Maybe the jury saw and heard things that I am not aware of but I really wonder if the death penalty is appropriate here. I would hate to put someone to death if by chance they are innocent. And I really feel for his parents. There has been too much death already. I don't think killing him is going to make things better.
I am not for abortion either. (oh, were you talking about executing murderers and granting closure to the survivors?)
I would have no problem in this case. Granted we don't know exactly how Laci died, but I can imagine poor Conner suddenly suffocating in the womb, kicking to try and get out and get a breath of air before he finally expired from lack of oxygen. It must have been nothing short of a grotesque way to die. Scott, on the other hand, gets a lethal injection and will go peacefully to sleep like a dog when it's euthanized. Too bad California no longer has the electric chair.
How about disemboweling? It's rather effective....eventually..
I'm not pro-death either. The recent execution of the Texas lady changed me. She committed her crime 20 years before her execution. By execution time she was an entirely different person ... and no longer capable of the crime she was convicted of. I saw no point in her execution other that simple vengence.
I might join you if you tell me what you would trade it for.