A Cruel and Unusual Docket: The Supreme Court's Harsh New Standard for Last Minute Stays of Execution.

The article outlines the federal executions and the broader context surrounding them and stay orders issued by the Supreme Court, and compare their disposition as its membership has changed. It mentions Court presumably favor the new standard because they believe that last-minute capital litigation is largely a frivolous ploy by capital defendants to manufacture delay. It also mentions arbitrary and racially discriminatory way in which post-sentencing legal proceedings.