take a portion of the farmer s crop in order to regulate supply and price. let s not bore ourselves with the details of that one. suffice to it say the case has spawned a era of terrible pun head lines. next week though the court is finally getting to a pair of big, grand historically important case. these are big cases. both of them. but if there is a sleeper issue it is the one about the way we execute prisoners. death row inmates are challenging the three-drug protocol for lethal injections. this as states across are having trouble securing the drugs used for lethal injections. this as more and more are refusing to sell their products if those products are used for the purpose of execution. just last week oklahoma approved a new execution method, nicetrogen gas, it s completely untested.