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Alito Opposes Mo. Execution
AP ^ | Feb 1, 2006 | AP

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.


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KEYWORDS: deathrow; justicealito; michaeltaylor; ruling; scotus; twoseparaterulings
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To: Porterville
Right off the bat he doesn't toe the line.... I really am impressed.

I'm really impressed that you could make that statement without having all the facts!

You must be so excited! Perhaps you'll have something ELSE to whine about now!

81 posted on 02/01/2006 9:03:42 PM PST by Howlin (Why don't you just report the news, instead of what might be the news? - Donald Rumsfeld 1/25/2006)
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To: JCEccles

Not worth it.
What if it was you? Or your child?


82 posted on 02/01/2006 9:04:32 PM PST by JRochelle
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To: kddid
Is he a liberal?

He is a human being. Let us see how this plays out.

83 posted on 02/01/2006 9:05:13 PM PST by ARealMothersSonForever
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To: JRochelle
The mindset that says no criminal should be put to death if there is the slightest possibility of error is the same mindset that would spend any amount of money--other people's money--to prolong one life. It sounds noble. In fact it is shortsighted and ultimately more destructive of other lives.

That's just the way it is.

So, I can fault your argument because it ultimately kills more innocent lives than it saves.

84 posted on 02/01/2006 9:11:58 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: JRochelle
Anytime you personalize an argument with respect to justice, you destroy justice. That's why neither the family of the murdered victim nor the family of the killer is placed on a jury to determine guilt or punishment.

We have criminal trials, and even capital punishment in select cases, in part to prevent people from taking justice into their own hands. Most people can abide occasional errors from a justice system even if that result runs counter to their interests. But if they get to the point that they have NO confidence in it--as where it punishes arbitrarily or never appears to punish at all--then they tend to take matters into their own hands.

An imperfect justice system that strives to get it right is far superior to anarchy and vigilante justice.

85 posted on 02/01/2006 9:20:32 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: groanup

ROFLMAO


86 posted on 02/01/2006 9:25:52 PM PST by Michael.SF. (Things turn out best, for those who make the best of the way things turn out.--- Jack Buck (RIP))
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To: JRochelle

No flame from me. Neither am I.


87 posted on 02/01/2006 9:28:18 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: sageb1

Your position is shortsighted, emotion-driven, and ultimately more destructive of life.


88 posted on 02/01/2006 9:30:43 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: JCEccles

You have no clue what drives my decision. You've made up your mind. That's fine. I have been in the middle on this for years. I understand both sides. I had to make a personal decision. You made yours. I made mine. I will not fight yours because I don't know, as you seem to, what the answer is.


89 posted on 02/01/2006 9:36:06 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Thanks for the information!


90 posted on 02/01/2006 11:06:11 PM PST by scott7278 (Livin' the life some consider a myth,)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Excellent. Well done.


91 posted on 02/01/2006 11:15:17 PM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Callahan

you can be sarcastic, but this does cause a little worry. Maybe nothing to it, but I'll be watching to see what happens next.


92 posted on 02/01/2006 11:16:49 PM PST by balch3
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To: Halls
that is what I'm saying, DRUDGE Is wrong!

What else is new?

*shrugs*

93 posted on 02/02/2006 12:55:57 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("Liberals aren't neighborhood people." -Daniel Patrick Moynihan)
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To: JRochelle
If we put to death 1000 guilty criminals and 1 who is not guilty, to me its not worth it.

I don't know about the paradise where you live, but some innocent person dies in a car crash every day in this town.
94 posted on 02/02/2006 1:15:24 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: kddid

An emergency request to short circuit the appeals court process is seldom granted except to prevent irreparable harm. In this case, the only harm would have been to the state's execution schedule, hence the state's request was not granted. And there is no way Alito has looked at the case.


95 posted on 02/02/2006 1:47:20 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: Callahan
</hysteric Freeper response>

IMPEACH ALITO!!!!
How's that for hysteric response? :-)
96 posted on 02/02/2006 1:54:04 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: Peach

Thanks for posting the entire vote. I feel we can't determine the direction of either of the new Justices until a few months worth of bench decisions are forth coming for review.


97 posted on 02/02/2006 2:47:10 AM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is Never Free)
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To: kddid

1 decision and he's already being denounced. LOL.


98 posted on 02/02/2006 4:29:08 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
In the second, he claimed that lethal injection was cruel and unusual punishment. Alito heard that request, and then the court voted 5-4 to UPHOLD that request, thus putting the execution on hold.

Thanks for the precise information. My take is Alito is needed to swing one of the mild liberals (Souter and Kennedy) to his way on the important cases. The other 3 liberals are basket cases and we only have 4 conservatives and need 5 votes. So there is some give and take so that we can get 5 or 6 votes on the important cases.

99 posted on 02/02/2006 4:40:42 AM PST by palmer (Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle)
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To: JRochelle

How about we put nobody in jail because one of them might be innoncent? It's okay for an innocent to spend life behind bars, but not okay to execute him?

What a complete ramble of BS.


100 posted on 02/02/2006 4:49:09 AM PST by Stoooopendous
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