Give Me No Liberty, Give Me Death: Innocence is No Defense
"I offered up my innocence/I got repaid with scorn" — Bob Dylan Scott Horton at Harper’s points out two recent cases that underline a central tenet of perhaps the the most powerful and pervasive factions in America’s judicial history: the "movement conservatives" who largely congregate in the Federalist Society, and whose god and high priest is the radical extremist and torture apologist, Antonin Scalia. And what is that central tenet? That the need of the state to put its citizens to death outweighs and overrules the actual innocence of wrongfully convicted individuals. The first cast Horton considers is "the appeal