{"id":114,"date":"2007-07-11T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T22:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2007-07-28T16:45:54","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T23:45:54","slug":"no-jury-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/11\/no-jury-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"No Jury for Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard back from the court today, and as I expected they do not want me for the case.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastvalleytribune.com\/?sty=18629\">The case is described in the Tempe Tribune.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The defendant is charged with murder and the prosecution is seeking the death penalty.  In Arizona (and I think every state after a recent Supreme Court ruling), the jury has to decide the penalty, not just guilt.  A death penalty has to be a unanimous jury decision.  I stated on the questionnaire that I do not support the death penalty and would not vote for it, so obviously the prosecution would reject me.<\/p>\n<p>I can understand feeling so badly about a crime that you want the perpetrator to die, and if this guy is guilty he is a real scumbag.  However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deathpenaltyinfo.org\/article.php?&#038;did=1705#LAW%20ENFORCEMENT%20AND%20THE%20DEATH%20PENALTY\">data<\/a> shows that the death penalty is not a deterrent, and the only other reason would be revenge.  To me, that results in the state itself committing murder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deathpenaltyinfo.org\/article.php?did=209&#038;scid=23\">Data <\/a>shows that a large percentage of the people in the US feel the same way I do.  When asked if they would support the death penalty when there was an alternative such as life without parole plus restitution, more people chose that alternative than the death penalty.  That&#8217;s probably one reason why they had a pool of 80 people to select 12 jurors and 4 alternates.<\/p>\n<p>So I still have never got to serve on a jury!  Maybe next time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard back from the court today, and as I expected they do not want me for the case. The case is described in the Tempe Tribune. The defendant is charged with murder and the prosecution is seeking the death penalty. In Arizona (and I think every state after a recent Supreme Court ruling), the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}