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Here this is the original article when it first came out. The pillow over the face came from the witness who found him. The pillow was probably left to send a message to the other Supreme Court justices and congress. It was to send a message. It's just like in the movie Godfather when they send the fish wrapped in a jacket. It was a message. Scalia was one of the main fighters protecting the U.S. Constitution. Which now hangs on a thread.

The guy who found the body said that. If you click on the Drudge Headline it will take you to the link. Here is the quote,

"We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled," said Poindexter.

"He was lying very restfully. It looked like he had not quite awakened from a nap," he said.
Scalia,79, did not have a pulse and his body was cold, and after consulting with a doctor at a hospital in Alpine, Poindexter concluded resuscitation would have been futile, He then contacted federal authorities, at first encountering a series of answering services because he was calling on a weekend.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Texas-ranch-owner-recalls-Scalia-s-last-hours-6830372.php

A pillow over his HEAD, not his face. Why do you keep saying his face?
This article is dated the 14th

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/15/us/ranch-owner-recalls-finding-justice-antonin-scalias-body.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http://m.facebook.com&_r=1

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Justice Scalia had no pulse and was clearly dead, Mr. Poindexter recalled in an interview on Sunday.

“His hands were sort of almost folded on top of the sheets,” said Mr. Poindexter, a manufacturing executive from Houston.

He added: “It was just like he was taking a nap. He just went to sleep and didn't wake up.”

No where is there mention of a pillow.

Think about it. If there was a “pillow over his head” or anywhere close to what might suggest suffocation, don't you think it would be the first thing he would say? And don't you think the reporters would run with it? The best way to clarify this is for Poindexter to explain what “on his head” means. Has anyone bothered to ask him, I wonder?

It is quite possible a pillow was on his head. He could have been resting against 2 or 3 pillows and after he passed his weight shifted and a pillow partially covered his head. But again—over his head is not the same as on his face.

I am sure the Scalia family has more to worry about than what we post on FR, but I can imagine they would like information to be factual. A pillow over his face is not factual and infers actions that have no basis in fact.