Word: scalia
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...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...
...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...
Apart from instructing juries on the prosecutor's evil ways, Bennett has two passions: fly-fishing in Montana, where he has a house on the Yellowstone River, and poker, which he plays with such friends as Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Justice Antonin Scalia and former Nixon adviser Leonard Garment. While others talk about politics, Bennett concentrates on the cards. He does not like to lose. Yet he is well aware of what he's best at. A fishing buddy remembers a Bennett attempt at gratitude. "You helped me so much," said Bennett, "I wish there was something...