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I know little about this case, but apparently some guy in Georgia on death row looks like he shouldn't have been there. In any case, that's not the important point. Here is what Scalia says:
To me it says that if a guy was "properly" convicted in a fair trial and should be executed but it's later found--before he's killed--that he in fact was innocent, Scalia is ok with him being killed because he got a fair trial. Of course, by virtue of his innocence the original trial is an automatic failure and shows the imperfections of the justice system.
Strictly speaking Scalia may be right constitutionally, but pragmatically this shows a criminal lack of humanity. He "wrote [this] in a dissent from a Supreme Court decision ordering a Georgia court to review evidence in the case of death-row defendant Troy Davis".
This feels a bit like me writing a dictionary and misspelling some words, and when challenged on their spelling I can say "But look, they're in a dictionary, so of course they're right.".
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I know little about this case, but apparently some guy in Georgia on death row looks like he shouldn't have been there. In any case, that's not the important point. Here is what Scalia says:
To me it says that if a guy was "properly" convicted in a fair trial and should be executed but it's later found--before he's killed--that he in fact was innocent, Scalia is ok with him being killed because he got a fair trial. Of course, by virtue of his innocence the original trial is an automatic failure and shows the imperfections of the justice system.
Strictly speaking Scalia may be right constitutionally, but pragmatically this shows a criminal lack of humanity. He "wrote [this] in a dissent from a Supreme Court decision ordering a Georgia court to review evidence in the case of death-row defendant Troy Davis".
This feels a bit like me writing a dictionary and misspelling some words, and when challenged on their spelling I can say "But look, they're in a dictionary, so of course they're right.".
Sorry Repost
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Anandtech Senior Moderator
Red Dawn
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