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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (24814)	3/16/2002 10:26:56 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 59480

She was tried in the county with the highest number of death sentences in Texas. I'm thinking that if she was black, brown, red, or yellow, she would fry; but, she's white. WharfRat

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (24814)	3/17/2002 1:02:24 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 59480

The defense really screwed up in jury selection. There were, if I remember correctly, EIGHT women on the jury. Now the defense may have believed the women would be more sympathetic, but it achieved the exact OPPOSITE effect. Most women aren't going to be sympathetic in such a case because "I would never think of harming my child." Every parent at one point or another has been stressed and frustrated to the point where that thought comes into their heads - "I could wring the little bastard's neck." But that thought is not allowed in our culture, we all have to be Donna Reeds and Ward Cleavers who are never more than mildly and momentarily displeased with their offspring. Your average American woman isn't going to admit to those thoughts and isn't going to be sympathetic to a woman who ACTED on them. I'm not saying they should be sympathetic (I'll head off that flame war now), just that I can see where the defense may have thought they would be. Derek