When Thomas Jefferson was a young legislator in the colony of Virginia, he proposed a legal setup where, among other things, a person convicted on Monday was hung on Wednesday, convicted Tuesday hung on Thursday--except that someone convicted on Friday would have to wait three days, until the following Monday.
Well, at least the wheels of justice are moving in the right direction, grinding forward if you will. Think back how swiftly things were carried out in the McVeigh case. It would be a travesty if this Chechen is sentenced to death and is allowed to live any longer than 30 days before sentence is carried out.