Don't murder me. I beg of you don't murder me. Pt. II

[Braaainsss]

Leave it to Scalia to argue that it's constitutional to execute innocent people.

[Soratsin]

This story might be even worse than the OP. Michael Richard, a death row convict in Texas was executed even as his lawyers were trying to file a last minute appeal. They're now alleging that the judge hearing the case deliberately closed the court early knowing an appeal was in the works.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8206480.stm

At least the judge in that case is getting disciplined.

[Lunatic Goofballs]

We need new Supreme Court Justices. Anyone up for a "vote of no confidence"?

Why? They did the right thing. Well, not all of them, but the net result was the right thing.

Edit: But if you want to give Barack Obama the opportunity to choose nine new Supreme Court justices, I'm sure there will be plenty of Republicans who will gladly pound you with hammers.

[Samatolian City-States]

We need new Supreme Court Justices. Anyone up for a "vote of no confidence"?

Why? They did the right thing. Well, not all of them, but the net result was the right thing.

Edit: But if you want to give Barack Obama the opportunity to choose nine new Supreme Court justices, I'm sure there will be plenty of Republicans who will gladly pound you with hammers.

Well, I don't want all of them gone. Just a select few. I'm looking at Scalia and Thomas in particular.

[Lunatic Goofballs]

We need new Supreme Court Justices. Anyone up for a "vote of no confidence"?

Why? They did the right thing. Well, not all of them, but the net result was the right thing.

Edit: But if you want to give Barack Obama the opportunity to choose nine new Supreme Court justices, I'm sure there will be plenty of Republicans who will gladly pound you with hammers.

Well, I don't want all of them gone. Just a select few. I'm looking at Scalia and Thomas in particular.

You know, Scalia might have a different perspective on the Constitution, but at least he respects it. In fact, I suspect he has it tattooed onto his bum. Thomas, I'm really not sure what the hell is wrong with him, but I suspect he and Samuel Alito have corporate logos tattooed onto their bums.

[The Chaparral]

This story might be even worse than the OP. Michael Richard, a death row convict in Texas was executed even as his lawyers were trying to file a last minute appeal. They're now alleging that the judge hearing the case deliberately closed the court early knowing an appeal was in the works.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8206480.stm

At least the judge in that case is getting disciplined.

that woman should be put in prison, her actions deserve far more than an end to her career as a judge.

[Samatolian City-States]

Why? They did the right thing. Well, not all of them, but the net result was the right thing.

Edit: But if you want to give Barack Obama the opportunity to choose nine new Supreme Court justices, I'm sure there will be plenty of Republicans who will gladly pound you with hammers.

Well, I don't want all of them gone. Just a select few. I'm looking at Scalia and Thomas in particular.

You know, Scalia might have a different perspective on the Constitution, but at least he respects it. In fact, I suspect he has it tattooed onto his bum. Thomas, I'm really not sure what the hell is wrong with him, but I suspect he and Samuel Alito have corporate logos tattooed onto their bums.

Still, a judge is supposed to be impartial and unbiased. When you show too much bias one way or the other, you don't need to be there.

[Psychotic Mongooses]

Scalia.
Quelle fucking surprise.

[Naturality]

/rant

Why do we trust judges with such power? What percentage of judges are corrupt? They are human beings (fallible, biased etc) in a job, politically charged .. with protections .. but yet their word lays law to the land and our freedom?

What's the alternative?

I'm not even a lawyer and I don't like judges. I'd trust a random jury over a lifetime judge any day. IMO they are like lifetime politicians. BAD. Lose contact with the real world and prone to corruption.

Well maybe not any random jury. I guess I'd want them within my 'class' at least. I don't trust the comfortable middle class or rich out of contact of society and the real world to be judging anything of 'common people' (working class or poor people).

[Tiesabre]

Finally, the innocent man is given a chance.

[Ifreann]

Incidentally, who would get charged if someone was executed and then found to have been innocent?

[Naturality]

Sure as hell not a judge

[Desperate Measures]

wtf is Thomas doing on the wrong side of this? Scalia is obviously a shithead, but Thomas?

Thomas is even more of a shithead, e.g. his dissent arguing that a school was perfectly justified in strip-searching a thirteen-year-old girl on the word of another student that she had drugs. Even Scalia didn't join him on that one.

When your head is covered in shit, you shouldn't really argue over degree. A shitty head is a shitty head.

[Neo Art]

Incidentally, who would get charged if someone was executed and then found to have been innocent?

It would depend on the reason why said innocent person was convicted. A legitimate mistake? Then nobody.

If the person was essentially "set up" to be convicted, I imagine whomever so set him up could be charged with murder, or at very least manslaughter. I don't know if any such thing has ever been done in the US, but it's not inconceivable that it could.