Feb 2, '06, 7:59 am
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In First Decision, Alito Votes to Block Execution
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (AP) — Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. cast his first vote on the Supreme Court on Wednesday, splitting with the court's conservatives in an appeal from a Missouri inmate who was to be executed at midnight.
Justice Alito joined five members of the court in blocking the execution of the inmate, Michael Taylor, who had argued 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.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas voted to lift a stay that Mr. Taylor had won from an appeals court earlier in the evening.
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