Sotomayor Votes on Death Penalty Case

August 18th, 2009 by Courtney

Sotomayor’s first vote on death penalty | SCOTUSblog

The newest Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, on Monday night cast her first vote in a death penalty case, joining three other members of the Supreme Court in dissent as the Court permitted the execution Tuesday of an Ohio inmate, Jason Getsy, 33. He was scheduled to die in Lucasville, Ohio, at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

The Supreme Court’s order is here. Sotomayor would have granted a stay of execution, along with Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Paul Stevens. Sotomayor’s predecessor, retired Justice David H. Souter, frequently voted to postpone executions.

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P.S. Some days it really hits me, the words I’m typing into the Technorati tags field and I think, isn’t this 2009? Should the only blog the word “execution” be found on as a tag, be a history blog? Seriously. We are so barbaric.