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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: George Coyne who wrote (216632)	1/10/2002 11:43:45 AM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 769670

Yeah...just more southerners following in the steps of the great executioner from Texas: Justices Chide South Carolina in a Death Sentence, Again By LINDA GREENHOUSE ASHINGTON, Jan. 9 — The Supreme Court overturned a South Carolina death sentence today because the judge refused the defendant's request to inform the jurors that there was no chance the man they had convicted of murder would ever be released if they sentenced him to life in prison. The 5-to-4 decision was the third time in eight years that the Supreme Court has sent South Carolina the same message: As a matter of constitutional due process, a defendant in a capital case has the right to make sure that jurors facing the choice between life and death do not incorrectly assume that a life sentence includes the prospect of parole. Studies have shown that juries given the option of life without parole are less likely to impose a death sentence. Of 30 states with the death penalty that offer the choice of life without parole, only South Carolina and Pennsylvania do not require that jurors be fully informed about the choice. A bill pending in the South Carolina Senate would require judges to give the information to the jury at either side's request; the bill passed the state's House last year.