US Supreme Court wrestles with death row inmate's intellectual disability ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted ...
Ease of claiming low IQ at center of Supreme Court death penalty case
Decades ago, the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it weighs the use of IQ ...
The Supreme Court Takes Aim at Intellectually Disabled Death Row Inmates
More than two decades ago, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision prohibiting the execution of people with ...
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Court appears divided on whether lower courts properly found death row inmate to be intellectually disabled
The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the case of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than ...
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Is dog DNA 'junk science'? Erie's lone death row inmate appeals to federal circuit court
The fight goes on over Erie's lone death row inmate and the use of dog DNA as evidence at his trial nearly 25 years ago. The inmate, Stephen Treiber, has appealed his conviction to the 3rd U.S.
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Psychologist deems death row inmate Menzies incompetent; Utah court to decide in December
SALT LAKE CITY — A psychologist issued his clinical opinion this week that death row inmate Ralph Menzies, who was set to be executed before it got appealed, is not competent to be executed. Ralph ...
Florida Supreme Court rejects Death Row inmate’s appeal
The Florida Supreme Court unanimously rejected an appeal filed by a Death Row inmate David Kelsey Sparre, who was convicted ...