A few years ago, Antonin Scalia, one of the nine justices on the US supreme court, made a bold statement. There has not been, he said, „a single case – not one – in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit. If such an event had occurred … the innocent‘s name would be shouted from the rooftops.“

Scalia may have to eat his words. It is now clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit, and his name – Carlos DeLuna – is being shouted from the rooftops of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review.