Asshole of the Day: Antonin Scalia

In 1989 Tony Davis was given the death penalty for the murder of an off-duty Savannah police officer. During the trial and the appeal process Davis claimed he was innocent. His lawyers repeatedly argued that Davis had ben falsely identified. After the trial all but one of the IDing witnesses recanted their testimony. In the last twenty years no court has been willing to hear the new evidence which would show that Davis did not kill the police officer.

Today the Supreme Court ruled that that a federal judge judge must look at the evidence before the execution can go forward. And guess what, Antonin Scalia and his bitch Clarence Thomas thought that was bullshit. 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. Quite to the contrary, we have repeatedly left that question unresolved, while expressing considerable doubt that any claim based on alleged “actual innocence” is constitutionally cognizable.

In other words: Whether one is actual innocent or not. If an individual is convicted of a crime than he/she committed the crime even when there is clear evidence that someone else committed a crime.