Blackmun
Americannoun
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Wade decision was drafted by Justice Harry Blackmun, a Nixon appointee.
From Los Angeles Times
In Blackmun’s words, it “lessens us all.”
From Slate
Like Siegelman and Bentley, Blackmun concluded that “the inevitability of factual, legal, and moral error gives us a system that we know must wrongly kill some defendants, a system that fails to deliver the fair, consistent, and reliable sentences of death required by the Constitution.”
From Slate
But Blackmun failed to deliver on that promise or persuade others to join him.
From Slate
Siegelman and Bentley did not go as far as Powell, Blackmun, or Stevens in condemning capital punishment.
From Slate
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