Reuters on MSN15h
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 ...
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 ...
CNN on MSN1d
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 ...
The San Joaquin Valley Sun1d
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 ...
Indiana death row inmate Jospeh Corcoran files to reopen appeal window in death penalty case
Legal counsel for an Indiana man on death row have petitioned for the state’s supreme court justices to throw out a ...
Supreme Court sends case testing limits of death penalty for intellectually disabled back to lower court
The Supreme Court vacated a federal appeals court’s decision blocking a death row inmate’s execution because he says he’s intellectually disabled, ordering the lower court to issue a clearer ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer1d
Cruel and unusual? Supreme Court wants new ruling in case involving convicted murderer with low IQ
The Alabama Board of Corrections said an appeals court “bent law and logic” when ruling the state can’t executive Joseph ...
Daily Journal8d
Indiana death row inmate Joseph Corcoran files to reopen appeal window in death penalty case
Legal counsel for an Indiana man on death row have petitioned for the Allen County Superior Court to throw out a ...
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 ...
Vox19d
The strange case that the Supreme Court keeps refusing to decide
Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He received a JD from Duke ...