Talk:Extenuating circumstances

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[edit] now abolished

"The most important result of this rule in earlier times was to enable a jury to prevent the infliction of capital punishment for murder (now abolished)."

This sentence makes it sound like capital punishment has been abolished for a conviction of murder. If my understanding is correct, the only thing that is abolished, is the judge being able to decide capital punishment himself.--66.102.196.40 (talk) 16:02, 31 December 2007 (UTC)