Even when the death penalty is sought, the jury has the ultimate control: Sometimes juries sentence the offender to death, sometimes not. With all of this fluidity, legal and sociological researchers have compared the application of the death penalty to a lottery selected by no rational process at all (Berk, et al
Dalton Prejean was murdered by a state that refused to provide him with medical care, refused to provide him with a fair trial and adequate counsel, and that apparently seeks to cure mental illness through execution." (Potter, 1999) Supreme Court finally strikes down juvenile executions On Mar