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Wait wait wait. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this. Like I'm truly baffled. None of this makes any sense. No evidence what so ever right? And the jury are just as baffled? But even if he did have a part, I still can't understand the justification of his execution. I get the need of jurors and fair trial by one's peers but sometimes I think one's peers are sometimes stupid individuals. That's one thing that bothers me about the system.

Take this with a grain of salt. I'm not the smartest man when it comes to these things. But my point I'm making and literally its just as petty as this will sound. But I was on jury duty recently for a murder trial. I wasn't picked but we got the main story on what happened. He shot an old man allegedly. This kid was young. Dressed in a baggy suit and kicked back in his chair. But when I saw him I instantly didn't like him. He seemed smug, and most importantly, me being a hairstylist, I hated his haircut. Yeah! I hated his haircut so much that part of me wished he was guilty. He just had that look. Baggy suit and shitty haircut, and here's me saying "he did it" without even hearing a case made. I can only assume this is literally every jurors rationalization. Which is why I believe it's a flawed system.

I don't know why I wrote this but this sort of thing scares me. What If this were me, or you. Wrongly accused but some lowlife decides he wants to name drop you for a plea deal. I mean, this really terrifies me.

Edit: I really enjoyed reading all these comments. Great arguments! I have never heard of this story and this video is pretty crazy. But I want to thank you guys for finding more source material so I can get the other side of the spectrum.

I'm not a bad person am I?

I was a Brewer for a large brewery. The solids at ours, in a way, got used for two things. If a fermenter has only seen yeast and no hops, say after fermentation is completed but before dry hopping, we took the viable yeast and reused it. Yeast that had been through a few generations and wasn't usable was pumped to an inactive fermentation vessel. From there that yeast was pumped into a truck and used at mainly dog tracks as food nutrient. Not our choice but just who would buy it.

If the beer had seen hops, which is an allergen to some animals like dogs, we pumped to a different vessel that we call dirty. That's pumped to a different truck we paid to pick up, along with usually the spent grains. That was driven to farms for cattle feed or pigs feed

My city has a pretty world renowned one and it's been going on since I was a teenager. I've never been to one before. I am a giant horror movie fan and devotee all year round. But I have never gotten the courage to go, despite trying to psyche myself into going every year for 22 years. But I always back out. I grew up in a household with uncles waiting to scare me behind every corner and it was a jumpy childhood. What can you say or tell me that can help me get over my fear and get me to wait in the 3 hour line to purposefully scare the ever living shit out of me?

Lol I'm 36. I'm not ashamed that I'm nervous about it. I'm just a very reactionary person. I want to enjoy the visuals and what not, bit the constant on edge has me nervous.