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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

NOTICE TO FUTURE JURY OF MY OPPOSITION TO DEATH PENALTY IN CASE OF MURDER OF MYSELF OR MINOR CHILDREN

As an inactive lawyer, I cannot give legal advice, nor prepare legal papers. However, I want to share with you a form which I drafted in 1994. I drafted the form to make a point, thinking that one who opposes the death penalty may want to take this method of making a recommendation to a jury of the future. Reads like this:


NOTICE OF OPPOSITION TO THE DEATH PENALTY. I, of sound mind, do hereby declare that in the event that I am a murder victim, NO MATTER WHAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES, the murderer shall not be sentenced to death by any means. * * *

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Prospective Murder Victim

[acknowledgment before notary public]



Such a notice, if duly acknowledged, may be published in the newspaper, or given to the County Clerk, with a request that it be filed for record.