The opinion is here, 5-4, by Justice Alito. I will have more later.
Update: At the end, the opinion of the Court says,
Update 2: CJLF has this press release.
Update: At the end, the opinion of the Court says,
Finally, we find it appropriate to respond to the principal dissent's groundless suggestion that our decision is tantamount to allowing prisoners to be "drawn and quartered, slowly tortured to death, or actually burned at the stake." Post, at 28. That is simply not true, and the principal dissent's resort to this outlandish rhetoric reveals the weakness of its legal arguments.There is a side debate between Justices Scalia and Thomas and Justice Breyer regarding the constitutionality of capital punishment itself. At first glance, Justice Breyer's argument appears to be all the usual stuff we have refuted time and again.
Update 2: CJLF has this press release.
I just finished reading it. To me it seemed like a rehash of Baze. The Breyer dissent was just his personal opinion on the death penalty. That's great he has one, but it really wasn't worthy of a lengthy, off-topic dissent.
My final point is what I find to be an interesting observation -- Scalia and Thomas hit the nail on the head with their concurrences in this case, but the same two justices missed the nail completely on the same-sex marriage case. All my opinion of course. Congrats on another win for Kent.