I'm linking to a post by law prof Orin Kerr, reporting and briefly speculating on Alito's first SCOTUS vote, continuing a stay that prevents Missouri from executing a death-row inmate by lethal injection.If you take look at the post, click through on the words "my theory", which will take you to a second post entitled "How Conservative Is Samuel Alito?" Professor Kerr's guess "is that Alito is less conservative -- both politically and methodologically -- than a lot of people seem to think," and he explains why.