Supreme Court Reverses 6th Circuit: Habeas Review of Capital Conviction not Deferential Enough
Although it may seem at odds with common sense, while a criminal defendant is entitled to a jury of his or her peers, those jurors must be Death Penalty Qualified (i.e. they can and are willing to impose the Death Penalty) before sitting on a capital (death penalty) case. This case is one where one particular juror, Juror 638, hemmed and hawed at the question of whether he could consider all the penalties but ultimately stated that "he was 'not absolutely certain whether [he]
