it did not have to, but it did. so presumably the same thing will happen here. there s no deadline there s no time limit until federal law for the supreme court to act, but that appears to be the situation here, where we ve got bedownthe scheduled execution time. it appears that the authorities in georgia are waiting to see what the supreme court does. how many federal judges of the nine supreme court justices, how many have to intervene to act for this to stop? it would take a vote of five votes to grand a stay of execution. really. that s my understanding. i may have to refresh my memory. i think it s four or five, but i think it s five votes. procedurally what s going on, is the lawyers are saying in essen essence, our guy s gotten screwed here, we have an appeal that s coming your way.