Mincing words like procedural with substantive is sophomoric in this instance!
The filthy child killer got a stay of execution.
Just how procedural is that?
Your ignorance is boiling out of the pot now. Best that you take a chill pill and read more about the case.
hey, hold your breath and vote dem, LOL!! that'll show 'em.
This ruling wasn't a stay of execution. This ruling basically throws it back down to the circuit court. The USSC will take this case again once the 8th Circuit ties up some loose ends.
Assuming Alito wasn't up to speed initially on this case, he will be the next time around, and you can bet they will rule on this guy's fate, and this guy is living on borrowed time.
You are making yourself look really silly. Even after all of this, you still don't know what happened here, and yet you continue to comment. That's not very smart.
But, he did not get a commutation. A stay is only a postponement until legal issues brought up may be decided upon.
Once decided upon, it will do the anti-death penalty wackos no good to file the same charges again, as they do with nearly every death penalty case.
This slime ball may live a little longer (yes, longer than he deserves), but in the end, it just may result in other death penalty cases not being drug out as long over the same claims.