This is a fatally defective piece of reporting. A necessary part of honest reporting on this subject would be to describe exactly what these three "gentlemen" did, to be sentenced to death. Then, the readers would be able to reach a conclusion whether the judge-made law, both on the US Supreme Court and the Missouri Supreme Court, was responsible for a gross miscarriage of justice.
Keep in mind that for some 500 years before the US Supreme Court rewrote the Constitution, it waws the business of juries to find the facts of the case, but once that wqas done, it was the job of judges alone to impose the death penalty if it was warranted.
Congressman Billybob
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