“Capital murder juries must be
"death qualified," meaning anyone who fundamentally disagrees with
the death penalty cannot serve. You get a jury of your peers as long as those
peers all agree it's okay for the government to kill you.” http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2014/01/no-right-answers-questioning-capital.html
If the tide of public opinion
eventually turns and abolitionists are more prevalent than pro-death penalty
folks on capital jury panels, will it still be constitutional to insist all
jurors be death qualified?
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