Gorsuch Faced Early Test In Court’s Life-And-Death Power

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just 11 days on the job, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch had an early taste of the weighty power that sometimes comes to a member of the nation’s highest court.
Gorsuch for the first time faced a vote in which he could have spared a man’s life.While his four more liberal colleagues voted to block the execution of convicted murderer Ledell Lee in Arkansas, Gorsuch joined with his four conservative colleagues to let the state’s lethal injection process