there has not been a single case, not one, in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit.
Antonin Scalia: “there has not been a single case, not one, in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not…”
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Scalia emphasized the rarity of wrongful executions.
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