Substance or form?
October 09, 2004
Aaron Larson, from The Stopped Clock has a thought-provoking post on a recent Sixth Circuit death penalty case. He writes:
And if a some innocent people rot in prison, or perhaps even suffer execution at the hands of the state, our conscience can be clean - because whatever the facts, we know that the I's were dotted and the T's were crossed, and the need for "finality" must sometimes be placed ahead of facts establishing innocence. Right?
The full post (with a link to the Sixth Circuit's decision) is here.