life qualified jury

Criminal law. In a case involving a capital crime, a jury selected from a venire from which the judge has excluded anyone unable or unwilling to consider a sentence of life imprisonment, instead of the death penalty, if the defendant is found guilty. Cf. death-qualified jury. [Cases: Jury 33(2.15). C.J.S. Juries §§ 409, 446.]

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