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...McCleskey, a black factory worker in Atlanta, brought an appeal before the Supreme Court. McCleskey, who had been sentenced to death in the killing of a white police officer in 1978, argued that sentencing patterns in Georgia proved racial bias. The court fractured 5-4 against McCleskey, even though Antonin Scalia conceded, in a note to Thurgood Marshall, that prosecutorial and jury decisions are influenced by "the unconscious operation of irrational sympathies and antipathies, including racial." McCleskey was executed in September...
...Court tell-all, The Brethren, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong wrote that when William O. Douglas, who had recently had a stroke, was asked how he could decide cases when he couldn't read, Douglas replied, "I'll see how the votes and vote the other way." Today, though Antonin Scalia takes sarcastic digs at his colleagues in his opinions, the personal rancor is missing. Sheldon Goldman, a political-science professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, says the Justices' relations are "personally harmonious...
...Hance execution comes in the midst of growing scrutiny of the death penalty. A month ago, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun wrote an impassioned dissent in which he concluded that "the death-penalty experiment has failed." By contrast, Justice Antonin Scalia, a supporter of capital punishment who is fed up with last-minute appeals before the court, last week chastised a defense lawyer for waiting too long to seek a federal stay for a Texas execution. That outburst came during arguments for a case involving a federal court's right to intervene in a state execution. Tempers may grow even...
That standard will give juries and lower courts more leeway in deciding what behavior is illegal. But such flexibility proved troubling to Justice Antonin Scalia, who fretted in a concurring opinion that the court was giving juries little guidance. Still, he was hard pressed to come up with a better answer. "I know of no alternative to the course the court today has taken," he admitted. The first one to try out the guidelines will be Harris, who during her six years of waiting sought retraining and this year graduated with a nursing degree. Working for Vanderbilt University Hospital...
...criticize society in many ways,"Justice Antonin Scalia said during the arguments,adding that a copyright owner might ask, "Why doyou have to take my tune...