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Here's the opinion for anyone else who wants to read it: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/07pdf/07-343.pdf

Reasonable people can differ on whether the death penalty should be applied in certain cases, or at all. That's why people argue about it and legislatures try to decide what their citizens want the law to be. The Supreme Court's job is to step in when legislatures cross the line and implement 'cruel and unusual' punishments.

I'm generally against the death penalty, but the majority opinion in this case is laughable. If I were a high school teacher and a student handed in a paper with this sort of reasoning, I'd give him a C-. I usually find myself defending the courts, but there is no question in my mind, after reading this opinion, that the 5 justices signing the majority opinion were acting as a super-legislature, not a court.

Whatever your belief regarding capital punishment, we deserve better than this from our judges.