[AntiGuv]

A more likely speculation is that Alito's mixed record on death penalty cases in the lower courts was not a fluke.

[BigSkyFreeper]

A more likely speculation is that Alito's mixed record on death penalty cases in the lower courts was not a fluke.

Yep. That's where I've drawn my conclusion.

[lentulusgracchus]

A more likely speculation is that Alito's mixed record on death penalty cases in the lower courts was not a fluke.

So, what's his tendency?

He certainly isn't going to rule against the death penalty wall-to-wall on the grounds appealed by the murderer's counsel. He'd have to be a doctrinaire liberal who gets his guidance from French newspapers: spare the murderers, euthanize the innocent elderly and incubating young.