http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1569812/posts
9-0, but it was a moot procedural vote anyway.
"WASHINGTON -- 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.
The court's 9-0 action was procedural, however, because a stay was already set to expire Wednesday afternoon. "
Alito also had been on the USSCJ for only 16 hours or so. Even if this article was true.... maybe he wanted more time to review the case before deciding?
There were actually two votes at the Court, both on procedural issues; one was 9-0, but one (on the State's motion to lift the stay of execution ordered by the lower court) was 6-3. Roberts, Thomas and Scalia voted to lift the stay, and the other 6 (including Alito) voted to let the lower court's stay remain in effect.