Alito Splits With Conservatives in Death Penalty Case

Wednesday, February 01, 2006
WASHINGTON — New Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito split with the court's conservative Wednesday night, refusing to let Missouri execute a death-row inmate contesting lethal injection.

Alito, handling his first case, sided with inmate Michael Taylor, who had won a stay from an appeals court earlier in the evening. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas supported lifting the stay, but Alito joined the remaining five members in turning down Missouri's last-minute request to allow a midnight execution.

An appeals court will now review Taylor's claim that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment, a claim also used by two Florida death-row inmates that won stays from the Supreme Court over the past week. The court has agreed to use one of the cases to clarify how inmates may bring last-minute challenges to the way they will be put to death. - FoxNews.com
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That incessant sound you may be hear tonight and tomorrow is the thumping, in anger, of many, many Bibles. Unfortunately, I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow, so I will miss Pat Robertson's show. (But I think I will be able to read about it. )

Looks like Alito the Hun's starting out on his left foot

I wonder what Teddy will say about this.

And from a justice who is going to supposedly, singlehandedly, destroy 200+ years of personal freedoms and liberties. I hope Justice Alito keeps proving people wrong!