The Supreme Court saved a man from execution in 2020. It just took that back.

[Nevilledog]

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Ian Millhiser
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I'm starting to think that the Supreme Court's Republican majority may not actually care very much about the sanctity of human life.
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The Supreme Court saved a man from execution in 2020. It just took that back.
In Andrus v. Texas, the Supreme Court’s new majority shows that it doesn’t care what the old majority had to say.
12:51 PM · Jun 13, 2022

https://www.vox.com/2022/6/13/23165946/supreme-court-andrus-texas-death-penalty-execution-constitution

Two years ago, the Supreme Court determined that Terence Andrus, a death row inmate in Texas, received unconstitutionally ineffective legal counsel at his murder trial. On Monday, the Court effectively disregarded this decision — permitting a Texas court that openly defied the Supreme Court’s 2020 opinion to reinstate Andrus’s death sentence.

Though the justices who voted to let Andrus’s death sentence stand in this new decision did not explain themselves, it is notable that the Court reversed course after two justices in the 2020 majority — Justices Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg — were replaced by very conservative Trump appointees.

The most likely explanation for the Court’s change of heart in this case, in other words, isn’t that the law cuts against Andrus in 2022 any more than it did in 2020. It’s just that conservative Republicans control more seats on the Supreme Court.

The Court’s 2020 decision in Andrus v. Texas explained, in great detail, that Andrus grew up in an abusive household. His mother sold drugs out of their home and also engaged in sex work. She was sometimes absent for weeks while she binged on drugs, and she would bring home boyfriends who were physically violent — one of whom raped Andrus’s half-sister when she was just a child.

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This makes me sick..... The Supreme Court is lost.

[hlthe2b]

1. Damned Sadist Thugs. Uggh. I can only wish their Karma to visit them without delay...

(Karma, Agent Mike... None of us control that)

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[SemiHalfling]

3. Execution should never be the answer

It’s fair to say that anyone harmed needs fair justice, but haven’t the past years been filled with enough death? Even if someone remains physically locked up or functionally locked up for life to keep everyone in the safest/healthiest/happiest environment, that would be better.

[roamer65]

4. Sickening.

🤮

Execution should only be extremely rare cases.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Nothing in the least unusual for the Court. Look at it in...

Jackson's tme, or FDR's first years. The justices are no worse than they were back then, just new battles to fight.

[Guilded Lilly]

6. Everything that wretch formerly squatting in the White House touched has turned bad.

[Initech]

9. Yup. My nickname for him is King Mierdas.

Mierda is the Spanish word for poop and also means "shit" in the proper context.

[Guilded Lilly]

12. La Verdad!!!

[RKP5637]

7. And the Supreme Court now is not only lost, but is very dangerous to the future of America and "we

the people."

[Initech]

8. If Florida is the penis of America, does that make Texas the asshole?

[DFW]

10. More "pro-life" from the Opus Dei SCOTUS majority?

"It’s just that conservative Republicans control more seats on the Supreme Court." Huh?

No, they don't. Republicans? Definitely. Conservative? Hardly. Radical, bloodthirsty rightist extremists? Yes. But not a conservative among them.

If only the condemned could make themself pre-natal again.............

[Atticus]

11. This is but another reason why the Court MUST be expanded to 13 justices, one for

each circuit.

ELECT MORE DEMOCRATS!