Perspective
Aug. 6, 2014
Death penalty ruling gets it right, but fails to nix bad precedent
The state high court was right to reverse a death sentence due to juror misconduct, but it should have taken the opportunity to overturn bad precedent. By Jeffrey A. Aaron
You're on trial for your life. While the jury deliberates whether you should be executed, one of the jurors, then undecided, talks to a pastor. According to the juror: "No, he didn't tell me which way to go, no. He just told me just render the things, the law of the land, you know. Either I can go with the law of the land or I can go with mercy, sympathy and grace." Following "the law of the land," the juror votes f...
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