- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Federal District
Court Judge Fernando Gaitan of the Missouri Western District Court have
at least two things in common: they are both appointees of President Ronald
Reagan, and they both think it's just fine for the US to execute innocent
people. The same can be said for Judge C. Arlen Beam of the 8th Circuit
Court of Appeals.
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- In a recent dissent in a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling ordering
a habeas hearing in federal court for South Carolina death row inmate Troy
Anthony Davis, a man slated to die after being convicted for the murder
of an off-duty Savannah police officer, Scalia wrote, "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 able to convince
a habeas court that he is `actually' innocent."...
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