David Makowsky
6/18/2014 9:19:00 PM
On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 2:50:30 PM UTC-5, shel...@thevillages.net wrote:
> On 6/18/2014 1:44 AM, Yisroel Markov wrote:
> >> There are also other laws with regards to capital punishment that go above > >> and beyond "evidentiary rules". For instance do you know what happens when > >> a court, in a capital case, unanimously votes to convict?
> > Yes. This is an automatic acquittal.
> That, IMNSHO, is absurd. By contrast, the US judicial system makes a
> lot more sense in that it REQUIRES unanimous guilty votes.
The way I remember this, and it was a very long time ago so I might not be correct, is that no man is so evil that no one will stand up for him. Since no one is standing up for him he must not have received a fair trial and that is the reason for the acquittal.
I am hoping someone will correct me if my (VERY) long term memory has failed me here.