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Originally Posted by jillio
Okay, it was used incorrectly.
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not really. If it was "ambiguously," that implies Judge Scalia is against death penalty. If it was "unambiguously," that implies he is NOT against death penalty.
1. Washington, DC - "You want to have a fair death penalty?" U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia asked an audience of nearly 500 academics and others at a January 25 conference on religion and the death penalty. "You kill; you die. That's fair."
2. "The legal issue for me as a judge is whether the death penalty, as it is administered, violates the Eighth Amendment," he said. "Does it constitute cruel and unusual punishment? The answer is no."
3. As a Roman Catholic, Scalia disagrees with the recent teaching of the Catholic catechism and Evangelium Vitae "that the death penalty can only be imposed to protect rather than avenge," and therefore is almost always wrong.
need any more clarification on Judge Scalia's position on death penalty? I think we both know what side of fence he is on.