Cite as: 526 U. S. 115 (1999)
Stevens, J., dissenting
injection would be cruel and unusual under the Eighth Amendment. I do not reach any issue of the applicability of Teague v. Lane, 489 U. S. 288 (1989).
Justice Stevens, dissenting.
In my opinion the answer to the question whether a capital defendant may consent to be executed by an unacceptably torturous method of execution is by no means clear. I would not decide such an important question without full briefing and argument.
I, therefore, respectfully dissent.
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