article_snippet.sent: but I don't support the death penalty.
article_snippet.sent: Clarke's method is to humanize her client to the jury, with stories about their life which might explain what led their to commit such heinous crimes.
article_snippet.sent: In traditional death penalty cases, it's physical abuse, sexual abuse, drug abuse, dropping out of school,' Meg Penrose, a death penalty expert at Texas A&M University School of Law, said.
article_snippet.sent: However, experts say that since the jury was pulled from a pool of Massachusetts residents, experts could decided against the death penalty as a reflection of the state's general politics on the issue.