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.
LOL!
This is from the Ass. Press. You might want to do a little research if you want the correct scoop on this story. Check with a more reliable source.
Not true at all.
refusing to let Missouri execute a death-row inmate contesting lethal injection.
Not true at all.
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.
Not true at all. This isn't just bad spin, it has all the facts completely wrong. The only thing correct about the whole article is the date.
Nah, fry 'em.
Thank you kindly.
That they strip searched.
You forgot that part. :-)
Is it one of these stories?
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ff%3D/n/a/2006/02/01/national/w184438S38.DTL
Color me confused.
I checked with several sources and they all contradict the AP. Here is CNN's story:
Justice Alito casts his first vote
First day includes death row appeal, swearing-in ceremony
From Bill Mears
CNN Washington Bureau
Wednesday, February 1, 2006; Posted: 6:06 p.m. EST (23:06 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court's newest justice cast his first vote Wednesday, then was sworn in ceremonially at the White House.
In his first vote, Samuel Alito joined the eight other justices in rejecting Missouri's effort to immediately end a stay of execution for convicted killer Michael Taylor.
The move had little practical effect, because the stay was already set to expire Wednesday afternoon. Further appeals in the case are pending.
15 years of a strong conservative record and multiple times upholding the death penalty, this ruling means near nothing.
Well, obviously this one vote is proof he's another Souter. I'll never vote for another Republican again. </ hysteric Freeper response
LOL
Right off the bat he doesn't toe the line.... I really am impressed.
First day on the job and they want him to okay the killing of someone?
I chalk this up to a simple matter of poor timing.
A stay is not opposing an execution
Yes on both counts
you are correct. that florida case is the one to watch. and to watch carefully. I sense a possible 5-4 there, with Kennedy voting against the death penalty. if the lethal injection method is cruel and unusual, then the SCOTUS (5 of them at least) can essentially declare all methods of death such, effectivley eliminating the death penalty.
it could happen, and it bears watching.
The case has had multiple appeals all day. There have been different rulings based on the merits of the different appeals, some procedural, some substantive.
As I understand it, there were two motions heard by the Supreme's today. The first one was the procedural one (9-0 vote). Then the 8th circuit court voted 9-1 to rehear his case. The second vote by the SCOTUS was to overrule the 8th circuit. This is the 5-4 vote.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/13768113.htm
Except that Kennedy has tended to favor the death penalty in the past, so that is unlikely.
someone call the National Review, George Will and ask them if this is what Harriet Meirs would have done? So much for getting a great replacement.
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