[maskedmelon]

Nothing wrong with ordering the murder of elderly with pillows so long as they've outlived their usefulness.

Pillows are far more nefarious instruments than we care to acknowledge. Beyond smothering, strangulation and blunt force trauma are also possible. Keep in mind too that Scalia was 79 years old and considerably out of shape. A man sitting on his chest with a pillow would find little resistance. Turning one's head to the side as defense against a pillow attack is also beyond laughable. If you are intent on killing someone with a pillow, you'll hold it like a hammock under their chin, pinching their wind pipe while smothering their face with your hands firmly planted beside their head, wrapping to the back of their head if possible.

Also as we all ought to know (especially the artists among us) the nose is one of the few parts of the body that continues to grow with age, become a large pliable mass of flesh that could hasten asphyxiation when pressed flat against the face behind a pillow.