He glanced at me, saw I was listening, and made it easier.
“—I mean, before a man is sentenced to death for murder, say, there should be one or two eyewitnesses.
Someone should be able to say, ‘Yes, I was there and saw him pull the trigger.’”
“But lots of folks have been hung—hanged—on circumstantial evidence,” said Jem.
“I know, and lots of ‘em probably deserved it, too—but in the absence of eyewitnesses there’s always a doubt,
sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The law says ‘reasonable doubt,’ but I think a defendant’s entitled to the shadow of a doubt.
There’s always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he’s innocent.”
Then it all goes back to the jury, then. We oughta do away with juries.” Jem was adamant.
Atticus tried hard not to smile but couldn’t help it.
You’re rather hard on us, son. I think maybe there might be a better way. Change the law.
Change it so that only judges have the power of fixing the penalty in capital cases.”
Then go up to Montgomery and change the law.” “You’d be surprised how hard that’d be.
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