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Originally posted by Not Bob
(1) That's interesting. I'm pretty much anti-death penalty (usual rant about Cafeteria Catholics like Jeb Bush and Antonin Scalia deleted), so take this with a grain of salt, but I would say that this is not a case where the death penalty is warranted. It just seems that he was too far removed from the conspiracy, despite his wishful thinking.
(2) Yes and no. Interesting article in Slate on that very point -- which boxes the jury checked, and possible explanations of why they did. And I am occasionally troubled by how juries reach their decisions, but I think that the rare odd/stupid verdict is the price we pay for having a jury of our peers make these sorts of decisions.
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The Slate article gives the impression that there was a box given to the jurors for "limited involvement" but the NYT article said that 3 jurors wrote it in. Anyone know what the story is on this?
ETA because I could see some jurors not wanting to check the made-up, unofficial box.
