"Actual" innocence is no defense

It is fascinating that Antonin Scalia is held up as an "intelligent" jurist, rather than the vicious huckster that he most certainly is.

“This court has never held,” Justice Scalia wrote, “that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is ‘actually’ innocent.”

The case involves a man on death row -- seven of the "eye witnesses" have since recanted and the main prosecution witness may very well be the murderer.