U.S. Supreme Court,
Criminal,
Constitutional Law
Jul. 17, 2015
Breyer's subjective, personal opposition to the death penalty
Justice Breyer ignores the necessity of precedent or reference to the Constitution.
Lawrence Waddington
Neutral
JAMS
Email: waddington1@aol.com
Lawrence is a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge and former assistant attorney general for the state of California. He is author of "Disorder in the Court" at Amazon.com. He also edits the 9th Circuit blog, "The 9th Circuit Watch."
The U.S. Supreme Court has again upheld the death penalty, and the majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito included a lengthy American judicial history of capital punishment litigation and its unquestionable constitutional basis. Glossip v. Gross, 2015 DJDAR 7481 (June 29, 2015). Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a strong concurring opinion and a scathing summary of the dissenting opinion written by Justice Stephen Breyer, who prefers subjective persona...
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