Death penalty remains a big part of Casey Anthony case

Death penalty remains a big part of Casey Anthony case
11:50 p.m. EDT, August 15, 2010
By Anthony Colarossi, Orlando Sentinel

In the final phase of a death-penalty case, jurors must rely on
recollection of evidence, veracity of court testimony and, ultimately,
instructions given to them by the judge.If Casey Anthony's
murder case gets to that point, her jury will consider language such as
"cold, calculated or premeditated" when deciding whether she should
live or die.Orange-Osceola Chief Judge Belvin Perry recently
issued a series of orders denying Anthony's defense team motions that
challenged aspects of Florida's death-penalty process. In doing this,
Perry allowed for the prosecution to use several "aggravating
circumstances" during her trial's so-called penalty phase, should
Anthony be convicted.Such aggravators — asking jurors to consider
whether a murder, for instance, was committed in a "heinous, atrocious,
or cruel" way — must get weighed against so-called "mitigating
circumstances," meant to offer explanations for why someone kills.Perry's
rulings did not come as a surprise, nor did they get as much media
attention as other recent case developments, but they could have
significant ramifications later.

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interesting article imo