less than two hours before ferguson was put to death yesterday, the u.s. supreme court denied a final request for a stay of his execution. what happened here goes beyond the man, andrew cohen writes in the atlantic. it goes to a system where the language of the law says one thing and the implementation of the law says another. it goes to a constitutional regime where we all pat one another on the back for our common decency. we don t execute the mentally retarded, we don t execute the insane while executing the mane tally retarded and intsane. the smugness of that is breathtaking. thank you so much for joining us and on a very important topic that goes wildly underdiscussed in the american news media. talk a little bit about the execution of the mentally insane. the eighth amendment which seems to have been torn asundayer in th a case like ferguson s, it seems that we are doing precisely