Question about capital punishment in state of Texas

Also if you're rich you should probably kill whomever you want because you'll probably get away with it.

 

Government Worker / Public-Sector Unions will keep the death penalty going.

This is how they work:

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I don't know what to tell you, that is not one of the questions. Your wife may have been on a capital jury, but I have worked on capital murders. I tried a robbery murder like you describe, we tried it as murder because it was not an intentional killing. I don't know when your wife was on the jury, but as of 2010 it isn't one of the punishment questions

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Texas

 

As I said, her case was prior to 2000 (actually it was 1990 or 1991). Even now, the gist of the questions is the same:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Texas

"The first question is whether there exists a probability the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a "continuing threat to society". "Society" in this instance includes both inside and outside of prison; thus, a defendant who would constitute a threat to people inside of prison, such as correctional officers or other inmates, is eligible for the death penalty.

The second question is whether, taking into consideration the circumstances of the offense, the defendant's character and background, and the personal moral culpability of the defendant, there exists sufficient mitigating circumstances to warrant a sentence of life imprisonment rather than a death sentence.

If the person was convicted as a party, the third question asked is whether the defendant actually caused the death of the deceased, or did not actually cause the death of the deceased but intended to kill the deceased, or "anticipated" that a human life would be taken."