While Texas prosecutors will not shirk from asking for death sentences for the most egregious murders, Cole said, their risk-v-reward calculations have evolved.
The first would send someone who has allegedly committed an egregious crime say, murder in the first degree, or rape to jail immediately.
"Juries have recently been regularly disagreeing with the attorney general's contention that the death penalty is justified in the most egregious federal cases involving murder," he wrote.
In both cases, volunteers judged unsuccessful attempts at murder to be more egregious than cases of accidental killing.
You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans my fellow veterans whose future you stole.
After all, Jackson had served 39 years in a Cuyahoga County prison for a murder he did not commit an egregious error of justice that amounts to the longest imprisonment prior to exoneration in US history.
Victims of particularly egregious press intrusion, such as the Dowler family whose murdered daughter Milly's phone was hacked by the News of the World in 2002 want legally backed press controls.
"Of course, I realize that what McGinniss did to thrash my reputation is nowhere near as horrible as what he did to corrupt the narrative of a murder case... but it's still egregious and disgusting.... 'How do you fight it?' I don't know.
The state was able to garner a first-degree murder conviction, a conviction of even the most egregious crime, based on the testimony of a single witness.
Its most egregious moral sin – a tree of missions whereby you must selectively murder Haitian gang members, which even the notoriously-staunch Rockstar agreed to edit out of later versions – hasn't affected its cachet.
