Jul 12, 2011

Alabama's Death Penalty

     A new report from the Montgomery based Equal Justice Initiative finds judges more routinely overrule juries in death penalty cases than in any other state. And in the vast majority of times they do so, they sentence a convicted killer to death, reversing the jury's finding of life without parole.
     Why the we-defend-our-rights state allows the  government to overrule the people so blatantly is beyond me. Maybe they think their fellow citizens on the juries are too stupid to reach the right decision and they think the government will do better?
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  1. Jay CroftWednesday, July 13, 2011 11:46:00 AM

    Those judges have to run for re-election, so they need to develop reputations as "the hanging judge."

    Solution: abolish judicial elections. Other states have done this, and the sky hasn't fallen.

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