And So It Begins…By Jay Printz | Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 at 1:58 am
Justice Sonia Sotomayor cast her first vote late Monday evening, predictably siding with the other liberals on the Supreme Court — John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen G. Breyer — to spare the life of a convicted hit man. The criminal, Jason Getsy, was put to death by lethal injection in Ohio on Tuesday.
From the Los Angeles Times — Sotomayor’s first Supreme Court vote doesn’t halt execution:
In a 1995 murder-for-hire plot, Getsy shot his intended target, Charles Serafino, seven times.
Serafino survived, but his mother, Ann Serafino, was killed in the shooting.
Getsy’s lawyers argued he should be spared because other participants in the plot, including its architect, John Santine, did not receive the death penalty.
Last month, the Ohio Parole Board had recommended sparing Getsy’s life on those grounds, but Gov. Ted Strickland disagreed Friday. He said the more lenient treatment given the other defendants did not call for sparing the life of the shooter.
Jay Printz is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association; a 26-year veteran Montana Sheriff, retired in 1999; U.S. Marine and Vietnam combat veteran. He spent a dangerous year in Iraq in 2004-2005, serving as an advisor to Iraqi national security forces. He brought a successful U.S. Supreme Court challenge against the "Brady Law" in the landmark case, Printz v. United States.
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