WELL, WHO'D'VE THOUGHT?: I agree with Clarence Thomas about something. From the WaPo today:
"Breyer also wrote separately to say the court should consider a second death penalty case that asks whether it was unconstitutional to leave inmates for decades on death row. He said Florida inmate Charles Foster has spent more than 27 years in prison and "if executed, Foster, now 55, will have been punished both by death and also by more than a generation spent in death row's twilight. It is fairly asked whether such punishment is both unusual and cruel."
Justice Clarence Thomas disagreed, writing his own opinion to say that Foster "could long ago have ended his anxieties and uncertainties by submitting to what the people of Florida have deemed him to deserve: execution.""
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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