Last week, an increasingly radical conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court took yet another significant step in its descent into lawlessness. Without even offering a majority opinion to provide its reasoning, the court, by a 5-4 vote, cast aside well-established principles of deference to trial courts, as well as long-standing norms of procedure and collegiality within the Supreme Court itself, all in the service of allowing Alabama to execute a man who simply wanted to choose the means by which he would be killed.