Posted on 02/01/2006 7:01:01 PM PST by kddid
WASHINGTON (AP) - New Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito split with the court's conservatives Wednesday night, refusing to let Missouri execute a death-row inmate contesting lethal injection.
Alito, handling his first case, sided with inmate Michael Taylor, who had won a stay from an appeals court earlier in the evening. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas supported lifting the stay, but Alito joined the remaining five members in turning down Missouri's last-minute request to allow a midnight execution.
AP is really pathetic. It was a 9-0 decision and is procedural.
Another strike for the MSM.
damn, I was hoping it'd be 8 to 1, with Alito voting to fry some handicapped lesbian battered woman. (/ humor)
Alito Opposes Mo. ExecutionWHAT a friggen misleading headline!
Additional scorn for all who FELL for it!
Geesh!
Focus, read, research and cross-check your information people.
exactly and Druge is following them! What a dumba$$!! This was procedural and this guy is going to die, Alito did nothing wrong here!
That's why lifetime appointments are made for me.
It was 9-0.
Who wrote this damn article.
Okay, checked, her name? GINA HOLLAND
I'm writing to AP.
There have been multiple appeals on this case to the Court all day.
I never would have known it was humor if you hadn't told me.
Gina Holland, reporter of this AP article, seems to have gathered her information from Jason Blair's crystal ball.
she seems to ne AP's SCOTUS reporter:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22by+GINA+HOLLAND%22
More than likely, he did not have sufficient time to review the case and chose to stay the execution to give him time to do so.Really. If it's a death penalty case, and you just got on the court yesterday, and they're asking you for an opinion today, and one of your options is wait, you take wait. No rush. Plenty of time fry the scumbag next week.
I thought I heard the vote was 9-0. Thanks Peach.
Procedural vote, not one on the merits of the appeal.
There is not one fact in this story that is correct. The AP is either completely slanted or they have an idiot writing for them. This 100 percent bullcrap article has been picked up by the Washington Post and SF Chronicle among others. How does this crap get printed?????
Awww, give the guy a break ... yesterday was a momentous day for him (and us)... witness: Dems internal chaos over their failed lynching of Judge Alito ... President gives a rousing SOTU speech, where IMHO, he was playing with the left side of the asile and enjoying every moment of it (did anyone notice that sly smirk on his face after tossing out one zinger after another at them?) ... Cindy exploding her IED before the convoy even arrived ... DU being down for hours after the SOTU ....
Life is good right now :)
He's been on the SC for about 16 hours now and I'm sure he needs a little bit of time to review the case.
Different appeal, different vote.
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