Reader Response
April, 2005
Death-Row PoliticsMost people are astounded to learn that judges have refused to order DNA testing that might exonerate an executed prisoner ("A Tragedy of Errors," January). Those who support this concept of "finality" over justice rely on a legal philosophy known as originalism, which considers the Constitution to mean only what the writers intended at the time it was written. One well-known originalist, Justice Antonin Scalia, has written, "There is no basis in text,...
