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US Supreme Court calls ruling ‘unclear’ on whether Alabama Death Row inmate Joseph Clifton Smith intellectually disabled
The nation’s highest court weighed in on an Alabama Death Row inmate’s case on Monday, asking the appeals court to again rule on the IQ scores of Joseph Clifton Smith. The U.S. Supreme Court said the appeals court had been “unclear” in a ruling ...
Supreme Court orders more review of Alabama’s request to execute inmate courts said is intellectually disabled
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at the case of a death row inmate in Alabama whom lower courts found has an intellectual disability. The Supreme Court could still decide to hear the underlying questions raised by the appeal in the future.
US Supreme Court tosses intellectual disability ruling on death row inmate
The U.S. Supreme Court threw out on Monday a judicial decision that had spared a man convicted of murder in Alabama from execution because he was found to be intellectually disabled. The justices concluded that the Atlanta-based 11th U.
Supreme Court Orders New Look at IQ Scores in Death Resentencing
The US Supreme Court ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at how it decided an Alabama man on death row was intellectually disabled and shouldn’t be put to death after reviewing multiple IQ scores.
Alabama executes death row inmate who pleaded guilty to killing five people in 2016
The state of Alabama executed death row inmate Derrick Dearman by lethal injection Thursday evening for the brutal axe killings of five people in 2016.
Supreme Court vacated decision in death penalty for intellectually disabled case
The Supreme Court vacated a federal appeals court's decision blocking a death row inmate's execution, as he claims to be intellectually disabled.
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Alabama death row inmate who slaughtered five in savage drug-fuelled ax and gun frenzy to be executed
Derrick Dearman, 36, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday at William C. Holman Correctional ...
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Alabama’s 2nd nitrogen gas execution raises questions about method’s future use
As Alabama sets the course for the controversial execution method’s future, activists and legal scholars say eyewitness ...
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Derrick Dearman, who killed 5 in south Alabama axe murders, executed Thursday
Alabama Death Row inmate Derrick Dearman, who was convicted in the 2016 slayings of 5 people with an axe and two guns, was put to death Thursday night by lethal injection. He had given up his ...
Death Row killer Derrick Dearman executed for slaughtering 5 people with axe and gun in drug frenzy
Derrick Dearman, 36, admitted to killing five people during a 2016 rampage that began when he broke into the home where his ...
Opinion - Should we allow prisoners on death row to volunteer for execution?
However, the comparison to assisted suicide is not apt. Nobody on death row can freely assess the options and give meaningful ...