Morbid Job Supreme Court
Excerpts from the Washington Post article
"The Kansas case was unique. The state law says juries should impose death sentences if aggravating evidence of a crime's brutality and mitigating factors explaining a defendant's actions are equal in weight."
"But the five conservatives, including Alito, overturned a Kansas Supreme Court ruling that found the law violated the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishment."
"The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment _ in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes _ outweighs the risk of error. It is no proper part of the business of this court, or of its justices, to second-guess that judgment, much less to impugn it before the world ...," Scalia wrote.
"The Kansas case was unique. The state law says juries should impose death sentences if aggravating evidence of a crime's brutality and mitigating factors explaining a defendant's actions are equal in weight."
"But the five conservatives, including Alito, overturned a Kansas Supreme Court ruling that found the law violated the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishment."
"The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment _ in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes _ outweighs the risk of error. It is no proper part of the business of this court, or of its justices, to second-guess that judgment, much less to impugn it before the world ...," Scalia wrote.
posted by mjs at
4:17 PM
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a friend's reaction:
"Justice David H. Souter, writing for the liberals, said the law was "morally absurd."
ew he was probably smoking a bong and listening to phish when he wrote that"
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