Is Antonin Scalia a human being? Or is he a monster.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

Poll question: Is Antonin Scalia a human being? Or is he a monster.

This is not a debate about the death penalty, but whether or not the state has an obligation to use a less painful method. I post this in the lounge mostly to avoid having a tangential death penalty argument.

here is what scalia had to say about it:

But where is it written that the state must choose “the least painful method,” Justice Scalia demanded. “Is that somewhere in the Constitution?

i was fairly appalled hearing this today. it seems so inhumane.


"Justice Antonin Scalia noted that execution methods that have fallen out of use — the electric chair, the firing squad, the hangman’s noose — have been abandoned in part because of fears that they were not pain-free"

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/washington/07cnd-scotus.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Human. A really evil human.

Monsters can't help being monsters; Godzilla stomped Tokyo because he was a monster and that's what they do. But humans have free will and they don't have to be evil. Scalia has chosen to be an evil fuck, and that's a whole lot worse.

I'd rather have Mothra on the Supreme Court, or even Cthulhu.

[acmavm]

2. I suppose I should apologize to monsters everywhere for lumping them

in with that dirtbag.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. actually i should be the one apologizing.

"sorry monsters. i admit he is one of us. i just wish he was one of you"

[LynneSin]

4. I'm sorry - this post is just insultive

You think monsters want to be compared to someone like Antonin Scalia

[alarimer]

5. Isn't there a prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment?

Being categorically opposed to the death penalty, I consider any method to be cruel. But lethal injection may be better than some. I've heard of electrocution taking an inordinately long time, for example. I can't imagine having to be a witness to any execution.

But Scalia is a monster for that statement and for everything else.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. totally agree.

[Fenris]

6. I heard that on the radio and almost ran off the road.

[Adsos Letter]

7. He is a strict constructionist...

when it suits him. :(

[edbermac]

8. He's an alien. Watch a movie by John Carpenter called They Live.

Lays out the whole nefarious plot.

[cabraverde]

10. Rowdy Roddy Piper to the rescue

go hot rod go

[mitchum]

9. What do you expect from a religious nut job who believes in mortifying the flesh?

It's the Opus Dei way!

[ThomCat]

11. He's a monstrous human being.

There are a lot of them in the world.