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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
Usually, its the prosecution that go for the conviction and what punishment they expect. They are unlikely to go for a lesser punishment and the jury upgrade it, that's not how it works. So they will have requested the death penalty and the jury agreed. Which is a completely different thing than is being portrayed.
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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
But do individual jurors have to go on record why they come to a decision personally to send to the chair or jail or is this just people speaking out of turn about what was discussed before they came to a decision?
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Yes that's what I was asking, I was asking if there was some criteria that had to be met before they're even allowed consider giving the death penalty but obviously not, it depends on what the Prosecution ask for (thanks BOTS) that doesn't sound like a good system to me