the essay's called shamed to death, and the prosecutor spent most of his time kind of shaming brenda andrew. it was not so much about the crime as about her behavior. one of the oklahoma supreme court justices said this "in light of my experience -- i'm sorry, i've got the wrong page here. let me get the right one. the first stage of this capital murder trial is rife with error. that error at its most egregious includes a pattern of introducing evidence that has no purpose other than to hammer home that brenda andrew is a bad wife, a bad mother, and a bad woman. the jury was allowed to consider such evidence in violation of the fundamental rule that a defendant must be convicted, if at all, of the crime charged and not of being a bad woman. in this case, you know, the prosecutor spent his whole time just talking about her -- what he perceived as her moral shortcomings. and that's really what put her on death row, in a case that ordinarily, you know, wouldn't merit that. >> right, right. >> yeah. >> very last chapter, a little different than the other chapters. >> yes, it's the only -- the o

the essay's called shamed to death, and the prosecutor spent most of his time kind of shaming brenda andrewit was not so much about the crime as about her behavior. one of the oklahoma supreme court justices said this "in light of my experience -- i'm sorry, i've got the wrong page here. let me get the right one. the first stage of this capital murder trial is rife with error. that error at its most egregious includes a pattern of introducing evidence that has no purpose other than to hammer home that brenda andrew is a bad wife, a bad mother, and a bad woman. the jury was allowed to consider such evidence in violation of the fundamental rule that a defendant must be convicted, if at all, of the crime charged and not of being a bad woman. in this case, you know, the prosecutor spent his whole time just talking about her -- what he perceived as her moral shortcomings. and that's really what put her on death row, in a case that ordinarily, you know, wouldn't merit that. >> right, right. >> yeah. >> very last chapter, a little different than the other chapters. >> yes, it's the only -- the onl