Lindy Lou Isonhood : A juror's reflections on the death penalty

Lindy Lou Isonhood at TEDWomen 2018  (transcript)
A juror’s reflections on the death penalty
Summary
Also in Japan, the issue of the death penalty needs to be open for discussion, though, that is set. In schools and families, that is set. People can't tell that they are against it but they can't tell favor also.

The speaker was a juror and a law-abiding person who followed the judge’s instructions and voted “yes” to sentencing a guilty man to death.
However, she started to have a question about justification of the death penalty.

Even though there's a man who deserves the death penalty, he might be able to be seen as a human. As the same person, whether people want to give a man the death penalty or not? Can it be thought that a judicial system would be broken? Those made the speaker sick and leave there. She is thinking about that for over 20 years.

No one wouldn't answer sentencing someone to death as a juror makes a person a murderer.

The big reflection on the death penalty for the speaker was that she had silently lived about the issue for a long time though she started to show her thoughts that there's a person who opposes to the death penalty by talking with her granddaughter.

She tells us this is one of the lesson for her life, so a younger generation has a possibility to do something for social issues more than relying on old culture beliefs.

I think that it means that social issues are for all of us, it's not something that only governments or elderly people solve but young people can ignore. We are living in the same society that has many issues that we have to discuss.

Words in this story
juror /noun/ jury, juryman
abiding /adj/əˈbīdiNG/ permanent, constant