re: Utah reinstates firing squads for executions.

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That being said, I wish we would make sure the death penalty was for clear cut cases.

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Only "clear cut" cases are supposed to be convictions. That's the whole beyond reasonable doubt standard. If juries actually followed that standard, there'd be fewer false convictions. But as it stands, guilty is guilty and there's no tiers of who is guiltier. The only difference in La is it takes 12 jurors to convict for a death penalty instead of the usual 10.