October 16, 2009
U.S. Authorities Urged to Overturn Death Sentence After Jury Consulted Bible
The Texas jury didn't hesitate to find Khristian Oliver guilty of shooting and bludgeoning an elderly man to death. Oliver had stood over his bleeding victim, repeatedly hitting him in the head with a rifle butt before robbing his house. But then came the difficult decision over whether to sentence Oliver to death, and that's when the Bibles came into their own. A clutch of jurors huddled in the corner with one reading aloud from the Book of Numbers: "The murderer shall surely be put to death" and "The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer."Click Here For The Full Story......