What's Up With The Colorado Supreme Court

I was already pretty P.O.'d about the Lisl Auman decision by the Colorado Supreme Court, but this decision might have been worse...

The District Attorney who tried convicted killer Robert Harlan says, "Harlan is a poster child for the death penalty." Former District Attorney Bob Grant disagrees with the State Supreme Court's decision Monday that overturned the death penalty for Harlan.

Harlan was convicted in the 1994 rape, beating, torture and killing of 25-year-old Rhonda Maloney. A woman who tried to rescue Maloney from Harlan was shot and paralyzed from the chest down.

The Court ruled that because jurors used a Bible in death penalty deliberations, they were unduly swayed towards the death penalty because of Bible phrases like "an eye for an eye." "This was a miniscule part of deliberations," says Grant. Jurors are not permitted to take any materials in with them during the death penalty deliberations.

The State of Colorado is very conservative when it comes to handing out the death penalty.  You have to be a real sicko to get death.  Right now there are only three men on death row, all of them really, really bad.  Robert Harlan is one of the worst.  The fact that his death sentence can be overturned simply because someone used the Bible to help them come to the hard decision to give this "guy" the ultimate penalty is beyond me.  Even the jurors say it was "a miniscule part of deliberations." People are getting way to religion phobic these days, and need to start showing some tolerance.  And this coming from a guy, me, who is not very religious.  The Colorado Supreme Court needs to stop freaking out.

Comments

[Alz_Western_Genocide]

Go get Jumanji and watch it. It was a plan not a comedy.

If you're a white westerner you're condemned to complete cultural genocide by the same folks who have lassooed you with guilt since the second world war ended. They run your country, from the top of your politics, law and media right down to who can preach what on the street corner.

Don't forget Rachel Corrie either. Both her murder and that of Rhonda Maloney were different but symptomatic of the 'who's who' strangle hold on our world.

How come Bob Dylan doesn't do another 'Hurricane' song here? Not topical enough eh?

[mlrmpem]

amen to that, and not in an overly religious way. Whether or not you take the bible in with you, whether or not you are religious, what you know from life guides you... and doesn't the bible also have phrases like "judgement is mine, sayeth the Lord" and "thou shalt not kill" -- I'm not an overly religious person myself, and I haven't read any part of the bible in years, but I do recall there are caveats against dishing out punishment...groan at this wave of every body every where covering their ass at the expense of true justice and logic... don't get me started on juvenile justice