"Would this feeling rather incline you against a capital conviction?"
The jury returned a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole on each of the 4 capital convictions.
All capital convictions are automatically referred to the prime minister, whose word is final.
In Illinois and other states, the primary criticism of capital convictions has been that the defendants had unskilled, overworked lawyers.
Katherine Baicker, an economist at Dartmouth, found that the average capital conviction costs $1.5 million.
Nor does the number of capital cases brought, or the number of capital convictions.
The Workman case is set against a national backdrop of growing attention to wrongful capital convictions.
We must remember that when capital convictions that should be reviewed are not, people die.
The most critical miscalculation had been the immediate number of capital convictions.
Virginia's state and federal appellate courts are also considered difficult locales to overturn a capital conviction.