Supreme Court spares life of convicted murderer with low IQ

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5. Alito's dissent essentially favored procrustean solutions

From the link:

In a dissent, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the court ignored its obligation to provide "workable rules for capital cases.” Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas agreed.

So they essentially believe procrustean solutions are valid, yet somehow they find judicial ethics rules too procrustean for them. The term comes from the Greek myth of Procrustes, who invited guests to sleep in an iron bed. Guests who were too short to fit the bed, were brutally stretched while those too tall had their legs chopped to fit. In the end, Theseus punished Procrustes by forcing him into the iron bed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes