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The Gilded Age
Part 6.

CHAPTER LIV
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Have you any conscientious scruples about capital punishment ?" "Any which ?" "Would you object to finding a person guilty--of murder on evidence ?" "I might, sir, if I thought he wan't guilty." The district attorney thought he saw a point.
"Would this feeling rather incline you against a capital conviction ?" The juror said he hadn't any feeling, and didn't know any of the parties.
Accepted and sworn.
Dennis Lafin, laborer.

Have neither formed nor expressed an opinion.
Never had heard of the case.

Believed in hangin' for them that deserved it.

Could read if it was necessary.
Mr.Braham objected.

The man was evidently bloody minded.


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