[jveritas]

Thomas is a Catholic, Roberts is a Catholic, and Scalia is a Catholic? This has nothing to do with being Catholic, it is about Alito needing more time to decide, since he has been on the Supreme Court for just few hours!

[AntiGuv]

The fact that three Catholics vote to uphold capital punishment hardly guarantees that a fourth Catholic will do likewise.

[hispanichoosier]

it is about Alito needing more time to decide, since he has been on the Supreme Court for just few hours!

Exactly. A stay is not a reversal of the defendant's conviction and sentence, no matter what some paranoid FReepers may think. It merely gives the court some more time to consider the case. Given the fact that Justice Alito probably hasn't even moved his stuff into his offices yet, I think it's perfectly reasonable for him to ask for a little more time to review this case.