Members of the jury I come before you today in hope of persuading you to remove the ultimate denial of human rights, the death penalty.
English Oral
Members of the jury I come before you today in hope of persuading you to remove the ultimate denial of human rights, the death penalty. I ask you today to put aside your feelings of hate for criminals of past encounters and perform your duty and legal responsibility to remove the death penalty, for while it is in place, justice will never be fully served.
For you to fully understand how much of a burden the death penalty places on everyone, I would first like to share with you my past experiences with juries and the death penalty. I have been a professional lawyer for eighteen years now and in that time I have seen many cases where the accused was facing the death penalty. For the larger part of those cases I have been the one defending the accused. In almost all of those cases even though the evidence indicated that the defendant was guilty most of my clients were acquitted. Was it because I am an unbelievably good lawyer? No it was because the juries didn’t want to perform their duty correctly because they didn’t want to kill someone. Now I ask you, would you be able to do your duty if put in that position? Or would you say not guilty, not wanting to kill someone. If your answer was yes than you should agree with me that the death penalty should be removed. By affecting your ability and previous jury’s abilities to give a clear and concise verdict the death penalty is preventing justice from being carried out.