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 ...
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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 ...
Thomas and Gorsuch signal willingness to rethink SCOTUS rulings about executing low-IQ inmates
Over the objection of Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court put the execution of intellectually disabled man ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Supreme Court will hear case on second majority-Black district in Louisiana redistricting
The court also sent Joseph Smith’s case from Alabama’s death row back to the court of appeals for more clarification of the basis for the lower court’s decision. Alabama had asked the justices to ...
Cruel and unusual? Supreme Court wants new ruling in case involving convicted murderer with low IQ
In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that executing someone with an intellectual disability violates the 8 th Amendment’s ban on ...
Death row inmate Richard Moore executed by lethal injection in South Carolina
South Carolina death row inmate Richard Moore was executed by lethal injection on Nov. 1. He was convicted of the 1999 murder ...
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Remembering Anson’s victims of domestic violence
It is a sad and unfortunate fact that every year more homicides are added to the ever growing list of domestic violence ...