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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 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 ...
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.
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 ruling. After sitting on Alabama’s appeal of the decision for months — an unusual move for the court — the justices issued a per
Cruel and unusual? Supreme Court wants new ruling in case involving convicted murderer with low IQ
That decision came over the objections of Justice Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, who said they would have agreed to ...
Alabama Supreme Court justice questions ‘badly misguided’ Birmingham police chase policy in child’s wrongful death case
A lawsuit against the City of Birmingham involving the 2020 death of a Birmingham 5-year-old who was killed in a hit-and-run ...
After Supreme Court ruling, a Black Alabama Democrat aspires to US House seat
If Democratic candidate Shomari Figures wins a congressional race in Alabama in the Nov. 5 U.S. election, the ...
How the Supreme Court might act in the 2024 election — here are the cases that could land before the court
The Republican National Committee said it filed 130 lawsuits in 26 states ahead of the November general election.
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Supreme Court will hear case on second majority-Black district in Louisiana redistricting
The Supreme Court will hear arguments early next year in the latest chapter in a protracted dispute over race and redistricting in Louisiana. In a list of orders from the justices’ private conference ...
US Supreme Court to Decide Whether Alabamans Must Wait for the State
In Williams, the Supreme Court will decide whether the state of Alabama properly imposed an "exhaustion requirement" on ...
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U.S. Supreme Court allows Virginia to purge voter rolls
The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday reversed a lower court decision to block the state of Virginia from purging 1,600 voters ...
Supreme Court's Virginia Ruling Stuns Legal Analysts: 'Disgraceful'
The Supreme Court, with its conservative majority, is allowing Virginia to remove 1,600 people from the voter register.