Scalia: The wrongly convicted have no right to be spared

[ms_daisy_cutter]

Antonin Scalia, dissenting in the Supreme Court's order to a federal trial court in Georgia to reconsider the case of a man put on death row for a 20-year-old murder that he almost certainly did not commit:This court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later

Comments

[mcpreacher]

a self-proclaimed scalia worshipper once told me it was absolutely necessary that we sacrifice the occasional innocent because the only alternative is a society without the death penalty

you can't argue with somebody who sees said alternative as a moral failing

[happiestsadist]

True that. Though you should probably back away slowly from them.

[rogerdr]

Oh, come on, he must have done something for God to put him on death row. Who are we to second guess God's Plan? We connected the dots; you can't blame us if we missed the spot which exonerated him.

[diego001]

Failure macro of failure.

[rogerdr]

Failure of irony meter.

[diego001]

Shrieks.

[ginasketch]

Not human feelings again.

Those icky things are completely useless and we should all live like the woodlouse.

[happiestsadist]

That is an insult to woodlice.

(Sorry, I just think they're cute.)

[flewellyn]

Yeah, it's a sign that the person in question has an immature morality based on rules, rather than on empathy.

[xanath]

There must be a reason why Scalia's still alive. Providing a warning example to others of how a lack of compassion warps one's mind is no longer a good enough excuse.