"I'm very reluctant to send it back to the trial court so we can have a nationwide cessation of all executions while the trial court finishes its work and then it goes to another appeal to the State supreme court and ultimately, well, it could take years. You wouldn't want that to happen." — Justice Antonin Scalia, expressing fear and loathing at potential further due procedural delays to state executions, 1/07/08.
