Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

Quote by Antonin Scalia

Topics: Death Quotes

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and...

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and...

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new'...

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new'...

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated...

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated...

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If...

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If...

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of...

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of...

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again....

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again....

The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act...

The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act...

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom...

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom...

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is...

If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is...

It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down...

It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down...

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that...

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that...

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it...

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it...

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now...

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now...

For it is a land of illusion, a place in the mind, a shimmering mirage...

For it is a land of illusion, a place in the mind, a shimmering mirage...