Individual juror qualification focused on punishment views, mitigation, impartiality, and sentencing deliberations.
Full day summary
Individual juror qualification continued in the capital case after the court addressed missed summonses. Prospective jurors were questioned about publicity, impartiality, mitigation, and whether they could consider life without parole and death. The court qualified Amy Girardeau and David Murphy over preserved defense objections, excused Nathanael Brown, David Connelly, and Franklin Nelson for stated views, and addressed the limits of questioning about individual moral judgment and sentencing deliberations.