Appeals court orders new trial for man on Texas’ death row over judge’s antisemitic bias
A Texas appeals court has ordered a new trial for a Jewish man on death row because of antisemitic bias by the judge in his ...
Federal judge denies request to block Alabama nitrogen gas execution
A federal judge Wednesday denied an Alabama death row inmate’s request to block his scheduled execution later this month by ...
Planned Nitrogen Execution of Carey Dale Grayson Can Proceed, Judge Says
This photo from the Alabama Department of Corrections shows death-row inmate Carey Dale Grayson. On November 6, 2024, a judge ...
Judge refuses to block nation's third scheduled nitrogen execution
A judge on Wednesday refused to stop the nation’s third scheduled execution by nitrogen gas that is planned in Alabama for later this month. U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker ...
Alabama Department of Corrections ramps up contraband detection efforts
The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) announced new efforts for contraband detection and prevention.The department ...
Alabama can proceed with nitrogen gas execution of Carey Dale Grayson this month, judge rules
Alabama Death Row inmates Kenneth Smith and Alan Eugene Miller were executed in January and September, respectively, using ...
The US has executed 21 men this year. A look at the state of the death penalty
The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 cruel and unusual punishment. Later decisions in 2014 and 2016 faulted ...
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 ...