Which is why I don't think the decision should be based on a group, the decision of guilty or not guilty should be. If the life sentence is used should be based purely on a strict set of situations. Mass murders that are highly publicized, have definite recordings, and so on, where the person captured clearly isn't mentally stable, clearly has no regrets, wrote a manifesto, and so on. Those all deserve death, and in those situations the trial is little more than formality.Is there any group of people whom you trust<90% of the time with the life and death of another human?
Again, we agree. But those aren't the cases that concern me. I'm more interested in mercy for the living and wrongly accused, than 'fair' retribution upon the wicked.Mass murders that are highly publicized, have definite recordings, and so on, where the person captured clearly isn't mentally stable, clearly has no regrets, wrote a manifesto, and so on. Those all deserve death, and in those situations the trial is little more than formality.