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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…

On the recordSeptember 8, 2009
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.
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Antonin Scalia

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Scalia emphasized the rarity of wrongful executions.

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