Kevin Tarr wrote:
>
> At 11:02 AM 2/24/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> >Jon Gabriel wrote:
> >
> > > Texas was barbecuing their criminals (okay, okay... it's an awful choice of
> > > words) on a regular basis while GWB was governor. I can't imagine that all
> > > those people really deserved to be put to death for their crimes. And, as
> > > you said, the disproportionate numbers of nonwhite poor who are given the
> > > death penalty is also a concern.
> >
> >They haven't exactly stopped since Perry was sworn in as governor.
> >
> >I'm personally not comfortable with the death penalty. I'd really, really
> >like for "life in prison without possibility of parole" to be an option in
> >Texas.
> >
> > Julia
> >
> >potential juror (or, potential juror once her youngest child is in school,
> >anyway)
>
> <scobie voice> Herrrum? </sv> You get to use that as an excuse to get out
> of JD? Interesting. Not saying it's bad, every state and divisions within
> the state have different methods of selecting jurors. I loved JD. It was a
> six day vacation, but I did take the one case I was on seriously. Had a
> nice argument with the brother over the fact that the cops can declare
> anything as drug paraphernalia.
Well, if you're the primary caretaker of a child under 5 or an invalid, and
your serving on jury duty would cause hardship, they let you out of jury
duty, at least in Texas. So a stay-at-home mom with a kid under 5 who would
prefer not to serve at that time has an out, if she wants it. (Same if the
mother's working and dad's the one taking care of the kids.)
I really, really, really would hate to be seated on a jury if there were a
murder involved. (See above quoted statement about the option I'd want
available at sentencing....)
Julia
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