Cymric wrote:
T_Bone wrote:
They already found him guilty, so it's all down to someone in the jury being against the death penalty. Ok, I can understand that, but yikes! Why does that person have to be on THIS jury!?
Well, that is the jury system for you. You can't have your cake and eat it, it works both ways. Although I think there is more to it than someone being opposed to the death penalty: this was the second deadlock, after all.
I remember stories about white collar criminals who embezzled tens of millions of dollars from the companies they were running. Some of these calculating snakes 'repented to the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ' in court, upon which some jury members would do their utmost best to get them as low a sentence as possible. Same situation.
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Why is it only the Jews seem to know what repentance means? You CANT repent untill you've SERVED the sentence!
I used to blame the Catholics for that, but Christianity as a whole seems to have embraced repentance as an "alternative" to making up for the wrong and serving the time, rather than something done in addition to it.
Yes, it's a generalization, but generally everyone's doing it ;-)
