Delaware Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional
4th August 2016
“If the right to a jury means anything, it means the right to have a jury drawn from the community and acting as a proxy for its diverse views and mores, rather than one judge, make the awful decision whether the defendant should live or die,” wrote Chief Justice Leo Strine in the opinion.
This is actually a very reasonable position.
August 4th, 2016 at 14:46
If memory serves, Texas changed to requiring a unanimous jury vote for the death penalty a couple of years ago. I think it was driven by the SCOTUS, but there wasn’t any real objection to the change. It makes a lot of sense.