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The Colorado Supreme Court has converted Robert Harlan's death sentence to life imprisonment. Several of the jurors voted for death because they liked Leviticus 24:20.
The jurors in Harlan's 1995 trial sentenced him to die, but defense lawyers discovered five of them had looked up Bible verses, copied them down and talked about them while deliberating a sentence behind closed doors.
The Supreme Court said that “at least one juror in this case could have been influenced by these authoritative passages to vote for the death penalty when he or she may otherwise have voted for a life sentence.''
Death Sentence Thrown Out Because of Jury's Bible Reading
Richard Evans Lee • March 28, 2005 • Reader, what do you think?
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