Are you implying Harlan didn’t do it, was convicted without the rule of beyond reasonable doubt being applied and some how reading the Bible made them convict him?
If so provide evidence.
Are you implying that the Jury didn’t have the power to invoke the Death Penalty?
If so provide evidence.
Is it your opinion that all persons that may have a religious faith should be excluded from jury service in case any Moral views gained from this faith conflicts with current law?
If so provide evidence as to were this conflict has clearly occurred.
The Judge told them to make an "individual moral assessment" re sentencing. I gather in your language that means check legal precedent. If so provide evidence that legal precedent in the state Colorado excludes the use of the death penalty for such a crime.
The issue shouldn’t be whether a Jury person read a passage in the Bible, Koran, Torah, or Chinese Confucianism but whether they acted within the powers they were charged with.
To conclude anything else could be viewed as a form of Racism.
It’s also entirely possible that knowing they had the power to use the Death penalty and because of legal precedent they consulted their source of moral guidance to allow them to use it just as the Judge directed them to.
Here the list of those that were on Death row pre this judgment.
Edward Montour 8/23/1967 Convicted in 2003 for the murder of a Correctional Officer
Robert Harlan 7/7/64 Convicted in 1995 for the murder of a casino waitress and attempted murder of a woman who came to her aid
Nathan Dunlap 4/8/74 Convicted in 1996 for the murder of four employees at an Aurora Chuck E Cheese’s restaurant
History
History of Capital Punishment in Colorado The first person to be executed by the State of Colorado was convicted murderer Noverto Griego in 1890. Executions were performed by hanging until 1933, after which capital punishment was administered by the gas chamber until 1967. A total of 77 executions were performed between 1890 and 1967. Subsequently thereto, the death penalty was declared unconstitutional in 1972 by the United States Supreme Court in Furman v. Georgia. That case was overturned by the Supreme Court in the case of Gregg v. Georgia in 1976, and based on that precedential decision, the Colorado General Assembly revised the statutes to reinstate the death penalty for capital crimes in 1984. On October 13, 1997, 53-year-old Gary Lee Davis was the state’s first execution in 30 years and the first to be executed by the current method of capital punishment, lethal injection. Governor’s comments
OWENS STATEMENT REGARDING SUPREME COURT DECISION ON HARLAN DEATH PENALTY Owens: Ruling "demeaning, subjective" (DENVER) – Gov. Bill Owens today issued the following statement on the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to not impose the death penalty on convicted killer Robert Harlan: "Today's decision is demeaning to people of faith and prevents justice from being served. The death penalty in a heinous crime has been overturned by a highly subjective ruling that truly splits hairs. Even the justices who voted to overturn the penalty agreed that moral values and religious beliefs are important and can be part of the debate among jurors. "For example, a juror could recite biblical passages from memory. But because of a subjective interpretation that reading the same passage is somehow prejudicial, a convicted killer has avoided the appropriate sentence. I'm disappointed to see that the Court would supersede the will of the jury and the people of Colorado regarding the death penalty on such a technicality."
OWENS STATEMENT REGARDING AUMAN / SUPREME COURT DECISION (DENVER) – Gov. Bill Owens today issued the following statement: "I had been concerned that the Court might overturn Colorado's felony murder law. Instead, the Court reversed Lisl Auman's conviction based on a narrower point of law involving instructions to the jury. I believe that the felony murder law is an important statute and effective deterrent. It provides severe and appropriate penalties for those convicted of such heinous crimes against innocent victims."
Now if you bother to read all that and whether you agree or disagree with Capital punishment it seems clear the Jury was entirely consistent regarding sentencing Bible or no Bible.
