By Antonio D. French
Filed Thursday, February 2 at 8:23 AM
From the AP: New Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito split with the court's conservatives 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.
Taylor was convicted of killing 15-year-old Ann Harrison, who was waiting for a school bus in Kansas City when he and an accomplice kidnapped her in 1989. CNN has the full story.
Corrections Director Larry Crawford told CNN that Taylor will be transported back to the prison at Potosi pending a new execution date.
Click here to download Taylor's application for a stay of execution. Click here to download the Missouri Supreme Court's denial. The 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals' approval of Taylor's application for a stay is not yet available for download.
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