Killer Evades Execution Because Jury Consulted Bible

[The Straight Story]

Killer Evades Execution Because Jury Consulted Bible

POSTED: 1:30 pm EST December 20, 2005
UPDATED: 1:53 pm EST December 20, 2005

DENVER -- Convicted killer Robert Harlan has been resentenced to life in prison after having his death sentence overturned because the jury consulted a Bible during deliberations.

In March, the Colorado Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that the jury went beyond evidence at his trial for the 1994 kidnapping, rape and murder of a cocktail waitress. Harlan also was convicted of shooting and paralyzing a motorist who tried to help the victim escape.

Harlan's defense attorney said the jury was wrong to consult the Bible because, "An eye for an eye is not the law of Colorado."

http://www.local6.com/news/5588197/detail.html

[billbuckhead]

1. And who says irony is dead?

America gets more and more absurd every day.

[MsKandice01]

2. Good for them!!

Yeah that was a LOVELY separation of church and state, wasn't it?

[Blue_In_AK]

3. I used to work for a really good defense lawyer

who regularly brought Bible quotations into his closing arguments with very good effect. It's hard to argue with God. :evilgrin: