Comments on: The Problem Of Jury Override In Capital Cases http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/06/the_problem_of.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:31:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Haninah http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/06/the_problem_of.html/comment-page-1#comment-58373 Haninah Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:31:41 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/06/the-problem-of-jury-override-in-capital-cases.html#comment-58373 PS: There is also one possible factor which you neglected. You consider the role of race as a proxy for partisan affiliation, but not the role of race in its own right. In how many of these cases is a white judge overriding the decision of a mixed-race jury with regard to a black defendant? PS:

There is also one possible factor which you neglected. You consider the role of race as a proxy for partisan affiliation, but not the role of race in its own right. In how many of these cases is a white judge overriding the decision of a mixed-race jury with regard to a black defendant?

]]> By: Haninah http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/06/the_problem_of.html/comment-page-1#comment-58372 Haninah Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:29:57 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/06/the-problem-of-jury-override-in-capital-cases.html#comment-58372 I can honestly say that I have never been so genuinely horrified and sickened at how our own country handles the burden of making decisions of life and death (and yes, this is one state, which I for one don't live in, and I don't know how an ethicist would calculate the distribution of guilt across a federalist system, but as long as we all live under the same Constitution and system of government, there is no way any of us can escape some responsibility for what goes on in our midst). I can honestly say that I have never been so genuinely horrified and sickened at how our own country handles the burden of making decisions of life and death (and yes, this is one state, which I for one don’t live in, and I don’t know how an ethicist would calculate the distribution of guilt across a federalist system, but as long as we all live under the same Constitution and system of government, there is no way any of us can escape some responsibility for what goes on in our midst).

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