“…And the fact of the matter is that the circumstances of a juror at that stage of a trial will vary so considerably that it would be difficult to compare the two. Beyond the very general level, there simply is not sufficient uniformity in voir dire (e.g., the number of questions asked, the phrasing of most of the questions, order in which they are asked, and other topics covered) to make it possible to identify anything resembling a standard (see Fortune, 1980; and for consequences due to variations in voir dire in capital cases, see Nietzel & Dillehay, 1982, and Nietzel, Dillehay, & Himelein, 1987). One important similarity, however, is that our subjects had been answering questions about their feelings about the death penalty and their ability to consider alternative punishments leading into the screening under Witt .…”