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By Paul Richard Harris, Axis of Logic
Axis of Logic
Sunday, Feb 14, 2016
The United States Supreme Court has taken a huge leap forward. The combined I.Q. of the group doubled over the weekend with the welcome death of Antonin Scalia. As the magazine The Onion headlines it, 'Justice Scalia Dead Following 30-Year Battle With Social Progress'.
This is the man who, in a dissenting decision in 2009, made clear that defendants in the US are not protected from execution on the flimsy grounds that they're innocent.
"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," Scalia wrote in a 2009 dissent of the Court's order for a federal trial court in Georgia to consider the case of death row inmate Troy Davis.
While the court will no doubt miss the wit and charm of Justice Scalia, here is the new & improved version:
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