If I read Snipy correctly it's because the SC said that the judge can't change the jury decision but Alito is scraping around for a form of words that tries to make it sound like maybe the judge can change the jury decision, and staple it to the SC decision while nobody's watching.
Great reasoning by Alito. If the death sentence could only be imposed "if the facts were so clear and convincing that no reasonable person could differ", and the jury just recommended life, the only possible conclusion is that we have a jury of twelve unreasonable people. Take that, trial by jury!
During the scourging scene, I half expected that the Roman soldier who was waiting for his turn to whip Jesus would start to "fluff" himself, like a guy in a gang-bang video waiting for an open hole. That is just about the sickest scene I've ever seen in a movie I never want to see again.
I think Alabama also lets a judge override the jury's sentencing decision, and at his sole discretion send a prisoner to death. This is more bad news for Judge Moore.
Shit, they almost had that in the Zimmerman case, didn't they? I seem to recall that they weren't even going to charge him until it blew up on the intertubes.
I didn't know Kia was sick!
Scalia and Thomas get all the ink, but Alito is a savage little prick.
Or that you're an olds.
Outward appearance.
If I read Snipy correctly it's because the SC said that the judge can't change the jury decision but Alito is scraping around for a form of words that tries to make it sound like maybe the judge can change the jury decision, and staple it to the SC decision while nobody's watching.
I was trying to make a pun but I think it was poorly executed.
BOOM!
Great reasoning by Alito. If the death sentence could only be imposed "if the facts were so clear and convincing that no reasonable person could differ", and the jury just recommended life, the only possible conclusion is that we have a jury of twelve unreasonable people. Take that, trial by jury!
Wow Alito is actually worse than Scalia.
Hey Pope Frank, isn't the Catholic Church opposed to the Death Penalty? Excommunicate this fucker to prove a point, if you don't mind.
Or at least deny him the sacrament of the Eucharist, like some bishops did to pro-choice Catholic pols.
Maybe the judge should just ignore the guilty finding if these people are so unreasonable.
Maybe if enough of us join we can get Obama a job as president of the NRA.
During the scourging scene, I half expected that the Roman soldier who was waiting for his turn to whip Jesus would start to "fluff" himself, like a guy in a gang-bang video waiting for an open hole. That is just about the sickest scene I've ever seen in a movie I never want to see again.
I think Alabama also lets a judge override the jury's sentencing decision, and at his sole discretion send a prisoner to death. This is more bad news for Judge Moore.
Shit, they almost had that in the Zimmerman case, didn't they? I seem to recall that they weren't even going to charge him until it blew up on the intertubes.
I see Alito was leaning, as ever, toward a broad application of the quia ego sic dixit principle.