Baze v. Rees, Part 1

I'll have more to say once I've read the opinions in Baze v. Rees, but this is a heck of a splinter on a death penalty case:

ROBERTS, C. J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion, in which KENNEDY and ALITO, JJ., joined. ALITO, J., filed a concurring opinion. STEVENS, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. SCALIA, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which THOMAS, J., joined. THOMAS, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which SCALIA, J., joined. BREYER, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. GINSBURG, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which SOUTER, J., joined.

Something is awry with the Court's Eighth Amendment jurisprudence, and the fact that we have seven opinions from nine justices is a good indication of it.