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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-08-08 03:54 AM
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Does anyone think this man bullied jurors into voting for the death penalty?
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Two jurors were initially intent on a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, panelist Earl Garrett said. He said he persuaded them to change their minds.

"I had to hurt their feelings ... but I wasn't there to make friends," Garrett said. "It hurts to know you're sending a man to die, but he killed this little girl. He signed his own death warrant."

Underwood's attorneys did not dispute that he killed Jamie in April 2006, but argued that he suffered from a host of mental illnesses and was overcome by deviant sexual urges.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080308/ap_on_re_us/girl_slain_trial

This is an awful case of a man who murdered a little girl. It's one of those things that makes it easy to want this man to die for what he did. At the same time I'm against the death penalty, too.

Reading this, I wondered if that man bullied the two jurors into voting his way.
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