The
story is a few days old but the campaign by the American Family Association is hitting email inboxes today:
Recently the Colorado Supreme Court threw out a death sentence for a man convicted of rape and murder. Their reason? Some jurors in the jury room read from the Bible before reaching a verdict.
Oddly enough, the judge in the case - as Colorado law requires - sent the jury off to deliberate about the death penalty with an instruction to think beyond the narrow confines of the law. Each juror, the judge told the panel, must make an "individual moral assessment," in deciding whether the defendant should live.
The jurors voted unanimously for death. Because of that, the Colorado Supreme Court changed his sentence to life in prison without parole.
Should the Bible be banned from the Jury Room?
Rather than posting a poll here, just click on over to the AFA site and
cast your vote.