How Jurors Decide on Life or Death
As we await the Virginia jury's verdict on whether John Muhammad will be sentenced to life in prison or death, we thought we'd point out this excellent series by investigative journalist Alan Berlow at American Radio Networks called Deadly Decisions about how jurors decide who lives or dies. Using real life cases, the report is divided into in three parts, Juror Responsibility, Juror Confusion and Juror Bias. You can choose to read or listen to the reports.
Alan Berlow provides his thoughts on the project here.
Whether or not one supports the death penalty, we like to assume that when the state is trying to take a person's life, that individual will get a fair trial by a jury. What the Capital Jury Project's research and my own interviews with capital jurors suggest is that this is often not the case.
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