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...dramatic dissent from the Supreme Court's refusal to hear an appeal for a stay of execution, Harry Blackmun, the court's most senior Justice, authored a highly personal repudiation of the death penalty, which he had long upheld. "From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death," wrote Blackmun...
...Justice Harry A. Blackmun announcing his decision to oppose the death penalty, as quoted in The New York Times, Feb. 23, 1994. Blackmun's opinion has evolved since 1972 when he dissented on a United States Supreme Court decision that declared death penalty laws unconstitutional. Blackmun is 83 years...
...ruling, the Supreme Court upheld a controversial practice of both the Bush and Clinton administrations -- picking up Haitian refugees in % international waters and returning them home. Only Harry Blackmun dissented from the court's reasoning that the pertinent U.S. laws and treaties, which require a hearing at which refugees can argue that they are fleeing political persecution, apply only to refugees who set foot on U.S. shores -- not those stopped...
...shooting a Texas police officer. The court ruled that Herrera could not reopen his case years later by producing statements from four people who said his brother was the actual killer. The brother could hardly dispute the claim, since he died in 1984. In a dissent, Justice Harry Blackmun argued that strong late claims of innocence must be heard. "The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder," he declared...
...hard to draw. Please do get me wrong, I'm thrilled to have a Democrat back in the White House for the first time since I was nine. Absolutely delirious. No more going to bed at night in fear of waking up the next morning to discover that, Harry Blackmun's feeble pulse having winked out at some obscure hour of the a.m., Pat Buchanan is our newest Supreme Court Justice...