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US Supreme Court to review death row inmate's intellectual disability ruling. By John Kruzel. June 6, 2025 11:01 PM UTC Updated ago ... The Supreme Court's 2002 precedent in a case called Atkins v.
The court on June 6 said it would take up the case of Alabama death row inmate Joseph Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to death for a brutal murder in 1997. Smith’s IQ scores have ranged ...
The court on June 6 said it would take up the case of Alabama death row inmate Joseph Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to death for a brutal murder in 1997. Smith’s IQ scores have ranged ...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 opinion that Texas death row prisoner Ruben Gutierrez should be permitted to continue his lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state's post ...
The court on June 6 said it would take up the case of Alabama death row inmate Joseph Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to death for a brutal murder in 1997. Smith’s IQ scores have ranged ...
The Supreme Court is set to announce its final slate of opinions on Friday, with several blockbuster cases left to be decided before the court’s summer break begins.
Texas death row case: Reed asks U.S. Supreme Court for DNA test In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to throw out a ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found it too late to ...
Court turns down appeal of Ariz. inmate sentenced to death in '77 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court turned down an appeal Monday from an Arizona man, first sentenced to death in 1977, who says he ...
Four months after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip’s murder conviction and granted him a new trial, Oklahoma's attorney general said on Monday that he ...
Jordan's petition was denied despite a pending response from the U.S. Supreme Court on an open petition. The 79-year-old has been on death row for 48 years for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter.
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 ...
Jordan's petition was denied despite a pending response from the U.S. Supreme Court on an open petition. The 79-year-old has been on death row for 48 years for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter.