The Florida Supreme Court upheld a decision by a Duval circuit judge that rejected relief for a Death Row inmate – despite ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for execution. LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case ...

Lawyers ask TN Supreme Court to weigh case of disabled death row inmate set for execution Byron Black has been on death row since 1989 for a Nashville triple murder.

Decades ago, the Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it will weigh the use of intelligence tests in death penalty cases.

At issue in Smith's case is whether and how courts may consider the cumulative effect of multiple intelligence quotient (IQ) scores in assessing a death row inmate's intellectual disability.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by Alabama officials of a judicial decision that a man convicted of a 1997 murder is intellectually disabled - a ...

A hearing was held Thursday, April 17 in Caddo District Court for a death row inmate who is trying to appeal his sentence.

The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday recalled execution warrants that a judge had signed for two death row inmates who were each convicted of murder in Caddo Parish.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the prosecutor’s office that originally put him on ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Texas death row inmate Areli Escobar, despite support for a new trial from the same prosecutors who once secured his conviction.