Majority Whip Barry Fleming hates the jury system:

The bill, which was filed Friday, would give judges the discretion to impose the death sentence on nonunanimous jury verdicts in which at least nine jurors voted for execution.

Prosecutors say the change will help them secure death penalty verdicts, which are increasingly difficult to get as questions mount over the imposition of capital punishment in the United States.

Yes, let’s not let problems with the judicial system stop us from putting people to death; mostly guilty is good enough.

Defense lawyers say such a change would put Georgia in a category of only a few states that allow elected judges to impose a death penalty without a unanimous verdict.

He said that during jury selection some people will say they can impose the death penalty if necessary, but later refuse to do so on moral grounds.

“People morally opposed to the death penalty obviously aren’t opposed to fibbing,” Fleming said Monday.

Well, you can’t trust those shiftless pro-actual-life communists about which he broadly and arbitrarily spins yarns. You just can’t trust those “some people.” I also hear that “some people” will sponsor pro-death legislation and then go home and bugger their dog. So I hear.



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