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Originally Posted by Flyboy
Could this happen here.
Curtis Flowers has been on death row for thirteen years and has had six trials. At his last trial, one juror was jailed because he refused to find the accused guilty.
Must be Mississippi style justice.
Curtis Flowers faces 6th trial for the same crime
Anyone who thinks the death penalty is a good thing, think again. They seem determined to find him guilty, no matter what the cost, no matter what the reasons, no matter what the evidence. If he is guilty then he deserves to go to prison for his crime, but I suspect that if he is ever found guilty, it will not be because of the evidence, but because of the determination of the judge, the prosecution and police. |
To put it bluntly, I seriously doubt that a case that has been so badly handled by the prosecution could happen in this country.
Quoting from the BBC article....
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The local district attorney, desperate to score a conviction in such a high-profile case, has played it dirty to win.
One of his tricks, exposed by a refreshingly impartial Mississippi Supreme Court, was to fiddle the jury selection to exclude black jurors.
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Considering that in the UK the juror's are selected in the courtroom, with the agreement of both the Prosecution and the Defence Barristers, I expect there would be serious questions asked if the jury was not representative of the demographics of the area....
This article does not make me reconsider the death penalty, nor my favour of its reintroduction. What it does make me happy about, is that I
do not live it the US....