donna723
Well-Known Member
I would hate to have to serve on a death penalty jury too, but as a juror you have to follow the law and if that's what the law stipulates, that's what you would have to do. To be able to do that though, I would have to be so sure that I would never have any lingering doubts about it, no "what if's".
I've been called for jury selection several times but never picked for a jury because I worked for the Dept. of Correction. But I can't imagine having the responsibility of someone's life in my hands! I came very close to being picked for one case though and I was just praying they would excuse me and luckily they did. Our town is so little that it's almost impossible to find jurors who don't know the defendent somehow and this was a trial for serious drug charges against a boy that had gone all through school with my son. I remember him as a little five year old at kindergarten registration! His wife was in the courtroom and their year old baby, and his grandma that raised him was there, the grandma that worked at the elementary school and was known and loved by all the kids. Before the jury selection even started he changed his mind and decided to plead guilty so there was no trial, and he was given several years in prison. Had there been a jury trial and had I been a part of it, I guess I could have done what I needed to but I would have hated it! I can't even imagine how it must be to be a juror on a death penalty case!
I've been called for jury selection several times but never picked for a jury because I worked for the Dept. of Correction. But I can't imagine having the responsibility of someone's life in my hands! I came very close to being picked for one case though and I was just praying they would excuse me and luckily they did. Our town is so little that it's almost impossible to find jurors who don't know the defendent somehow and this was a trial for serious drug charges against a boy that had gone all through school with my son. I remember him as a little five year old at kindergarten registration! His wife was in the courtroom and their year old baby, and his grandma that raised him was there, the grandma that worked at the elementary school and was known and loved by all the kids. Before the jury selection even started he changed his mind and decided to plead guilty so there was no trial, and he was given several years in prison. Had there been a jury trial and had I been a part of it, I guess I could have done what I needed to but I would have hated it! I can't even imagine how it must be to be a juror on a death penalty case!