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Alito Splits With Conservatives on Inmate
As expected, Roberts looks like he's gonna side with Scalia and Thomas. On the bright side, Alito may not. At least not always.
However, if the case really is as the AP makes it out, why the hell haven't they killed the bastard already? He admitted he did it, while high. Being on crack is obviously no defense for killing anyone. Regardless of any race issues. Unless he didn't do it and was stupid enough to take some racist lawyer or cop's advice to claim he did. Which doesn't seem to be what happened, since he's claiming that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
Cruel and unusual punishment may be keeping a death row inmate in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison, but it's not lethal injection. Would he rather be electrocuted? I suppose that's C&E punishment too (which it probably is, compared to lethal injection). I mean, I'm generally against the death penalty because you can never tell if a person is lying or not when they plead not guilty. And you're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty (de jure though not de facto). It seems damn hard to prove beyond a reasonable doubt to prove that someone actually committed any particular crime. How many convictions have been overturned since the invention of PCR? But when the fucker stands there and admits it, what the hell is the problem? If he wants to die, let him (or her). Which also brings up the point of suicide being illegal. You should be allowed to do whatever the hell you want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. At least in theory. The problem of course being that it's pretty hard to determine that assisted suicide wasn't homicide, seeing as how the putative victim isn't talking to anyone.