By Monica K. Miller
ISBN-10: 1593321422
ISBN-13: 9781593321420
Miller demonstrates how faith impacts each element of the judicial process through targeting spiritual appeals through legal professionals in final arguments of loss of life penalty sentencing trials. She explores even if those appeals lead jurors to make legally impermissible judgements, as a few courts have feared. Can spiritual appeals lead jurors to depend upon the Bible rather than nation legislations? Her effects express that the extra members trusted Biblical authority, the extra they depended on their instincts and the fewer they trusted facts and the judge's directions. Gender, devotionalism, trust in a literal Biblical interpretation, and an individual's cognitive processing type additionally affected verdicts.
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Thus, some courts have determined that it is impermissible for jurors to rely on the Bible in their deliberations. Some authors find it inappropriate to allow jurors to rely on the Bible and other religious texts because these writings are inconsistent and can be translated in contradicting ways (Egland, 2004). Because the Bible offers passages that seemingly promote the death penalty, while others seemingly promote forgiveness, even jurors of the same religion could come to differing conclusions (Egland, 2004; Hiers, 2004).
State, 1995; Jones v. Kemp, 1989; Sandoval v. Calderon, 2000). For instance, the Hammond court rejected a religious appeal that suggested that Biblical law required the death penalty for all homicides. The court stated that the appeal was a clear violation of a Georgia law requiring the jury to find at least one statutory aggravating factor in order to impose the death penalty. Clearly, courts are concerned that religious arguments will lead individuals to rely on Biblical law instead of solely on state law (Carruthers v.
Harlan, 2005). Thus, some courts have determined that it is impermissible for jurors to rely on the Bible in their deliberations. Some authors find it inappropriate to allow jurors to rely on the Bible and other religious texts because these writings are inconsistent and can be translated in contradicting ways (Egland, 2004). Because the Bible offers passages that seemingly promote the death penalty, while others seemingly promote forgiveness, even jurors of the same religion could come to differing conclusions (Egland, 2004; Hiers, 2004).
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