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I'm disappointed when I see FReepers jump to conclusions- kinda like knee-jerk liberals.

I strongly disagree. Justice Alito had 3 choices before him, yesterday: he could vote on the side of staying the execution, vote on the side of justice, or recuse himself because he hadn't had time to become familiar with the arguments in the case.

So, for his very first vote ever, the man we were assured is a careful, thoughtful, brilliant jurist and decision-maker, votes in favor of a murderer - NOT the victim and definitely NOT the law that he claimed to uphold in his hearing.

Being his first vote, he has established a precedent that will follow him for the rest of his judicial career - we will all remember that he sided with the left the very first time he got a chance to voice an opinion as a Supreme Court justice. This is NOT evidence of a brilliant mind and decision-maker; instead, it is disappointing evidence tht Alito played us all and has the decision-making skills of a 5th grader. It would have been better had he recused himself than come down on the side of a convicted murderer seeking ANY idiotic excuse to avoid having done to him (in a kinder and gentler way), than he did to his victim. Where was his victim's appeal on the grounds that his death was Unconstitutional because it was "cruel and unusual"?

The bashing Alito is getting here this morning is well-earned. Conservatives got snookered.