[tioga]

-sounds like they outta be worried about their client's life, not the 10 Commandments. Do you have the death penalty down there?

[Constitution Day]

Yeah, no kidding they should be worried about his life.
NC executed 7 people in 2003, up from 2 in 2002.

[azhenfud]

"Do you have the death penalty down there?"

Yeah. We've got it - and we've got lawyers who obstruct justice, too.

[Elsie]

Do you have the death penalty down there?

Yes... it is called......

ABORTION

[Littlejon]

Yes, we DO have a death penalty & use it more than a lot of states. As much as I dispise Tax-Hike Mike Easley, he is a pretty staunch supporter of the death penalty. You can also take comfort in the fact that the eastern part of NC is VERY conservative and everyone in that part of the state no doubt remembers all of this. This is a very religious part of the state as well.

I remember when this piece of garbage kidnapped this woman & the heartbreak that husband had to endure. I remember how troubling all of this was to everyone in that part of the state. I suspect these lawyers are grasping at everything they can at this point. IMHO, since that part of the state is quite religious in many sections, this will NOT play well with a jury pool, nor will it go over well with the general public. I think they would have been better off having him show up looking like a Baptist preacher and praising the virtues of the Ten Commandments, but then again, I am not a lawyer! (thank God!)

My wife's family lives not far from where all of this happened, so it hit home for all of us, especially since we have 2 sons who were pretty young then and travelled to that part of the state often.