According to an article published on cnn.com, former police officer Bobby Cutts Jr. is awaiting his sentence for the murder of Jessie Marie Davis and her unborn daughter Chloe. After a 10-day intensive search, Davis was nine months pregnant when she was found wrapped in a comforter in a northeastern Ohio park. Because Davis was pregnant at the time of the murder, execution is a punishment option.
Friends and family of Cutts testified in front of a 12-man jury made up of six males and six females, all white. Cutts also sat at the stand, claiming that the murder of his girlfriend was a complete accident. Apparently, Davis came at Cutts and he accidentally elbowed her in the throat. He proceeded to perform CPR and failed.
This story is definitely controversial due to the race of the convicted. Many people believe that Cutts will recieve an unfair punishment because he is black, and all of the jury members are white. Finding a group of 12 completely unbiased, non-racist people is quite a task...and I feel that the judge should call for a new more diverse jury.
In all of the testimonies, Cutts was complimented for how outgoing, friendly, and involved with the community he was. So far, his story has been discredited by the prosecuters who say that his true intentions were to quit paying child support. His mother also begged the jury to spare his life, saying that "she could not go on without him."
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