Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin 2015051

CNN CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin May 15, 2015 18:43:00

if there is even one holdout who doesn't believe that dzhokhar tsarnaev should be put to death, he won't be. >> that's correct. you know brooke it's even more complicated than that. there were i believe, 17 counts which the death penalty would attach to. even if the jury on let's say, hypothetically 16 of those counts thought no death penalty but all 12 agreed on only one count, the death penalty would be administered and would be appropriate in terms of the jury verdict. so that's the way it works. but in deliberations like this you have what's called, first of all, a death qualified jury. that means anybody who agreed to sit on this jury has said that given the right set of facts, they could go along with and impose the death penalty. in many cases, people who are at least in theory and philosophically opposed to the

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