[Terriergal]

Alito casts first vote in Missouri death penalty case - appeal says cruel and unusual punishment

New Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito cast his first vote on Wednesday, as the court refused to give Missouri permission to immediately execute a man who killed a teenage honor student.

Note -- it says "THE COURT REFUSED" - Alito voted with everyone else. I don't know why other stories say the vote was split unless they're just so anxious to prove he is a liberal and piss off conservatives that they didn't check the facts?

[Beagle8U]

You also are confused, they were separate rulings, on different things.