A Death-Qualified Jury

Abstract

This paper intends to discover two legal cases occurred in the history of the US court system. The two cases include “Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510” and “Lockhart v. McCree, 476 U.S. 162.” In the first case, the US Supreme Court held that jurors cannot be removed merely because of general scruples against capital punishment, adding that a judge might be eliminated “for cause” if it is “unambiguously evident” that he or she would involuntarily vote alongside the death punsihment if required by the prosecutor or if the judge could not be unbiased in the fortitude of the ...