Newly minted Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, during his first day on the job, sided with the "liberals" and against Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas, in voting to uphold an 8th Circuit stay of a Missouri execution:
There was no explanation for the final order leaving the stay in place -- the latest in a flurry of last-minute pleas from the inmate, Michael Taylor, and from the state of Missouri. Taylor had been scheduled to be executed at midnight. Like other death row inmates who have been filing eleventh-hour pleas to the Court over the past week, Taylor is seeking to challenge Missouri's use of lethal injection as its execution method. There has been no consistency in the results these pleas have drawn from the Court.
Alito's first significant vote: splits with conservatives
Alito already disappointing conservatives
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