OVER THE YEARS, criminal defense attorneys contemplating what could send their clients to the electric chair or the lethal injection gurney have found solace in an article of faith: Urban juries, in Georgia and other death penalty states, are far less likely to mete out the ultimate punishment than their rural or suburban counterparts.
Only one Fulton County jury has recommended a death sentence in 10 years, which presumably explains why Brian G. Nichols’ lawyers so steadfastly demanded that Fulton jurors hear the case of the accused courthouse shooter-even as they argued without success to have the trial itself moved to somewhere other than the building where their client is accused of murdering a judge, a court reporter and a sheriff’s deputy.
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