>>>What's that got to do with the price of tea in China?
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>>>If you're suggesting I care more about the rights of murderers than those of victims, you're barking up the wrong tree. That doesn't mean I think it's perfectly all right for the state to bump off an innocent man every now and again, as sort of a cost of doing business.
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>>It goes to your understanding of the protections of the accused.
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>Can you run that by me again in slo-mo? Several different interpretations come to mind and I don't want to assume any of them is the one you meant.

It's extremely hard to get a conviction on a capital case. The first hurdle involves the "premeditatedness" of the murder. You've almost got to be able to say exactly what the person was thinking. Memphis has one of the highest solve rates for murder, and many of them are "smoking gun" murders. Even so, there aren't that many that go to trial as Murder I cases. Mitigating circumstances are factored into every case and the end result is only the most egregious cases get to that level. I can't speak for Chicago....