Thu 9 Mar 2006
Kate brought to my attention the latest GOP claim to good Christian values –
House Bill 1552 — sponsored by state Rep. Barry Fleming (R-Harlem) — would remove a long-standing requirement that death sentences be imposed by a unanimous jury. If a simply majority of jurors felt a defendant should get death, the judge could impose a capital sentence.
The bill comes only weeks after an American Bar Association report recommended the opposite: that Georgia stop all death sentences and executions and set up a commission to analyze alleged problems with how the state sends people to death row.
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Fleming said his bill will prevent a few jurors from “sabotaging” a death penalty case.
I really don’t know how to articulate a response any better than Kate already has, so I decided instead to make a pretty picture for her post.
