A lawyer wrongly scolded in oral arguments by Justice Antonin Scalia for not listing a statute’s text in his brief got an apology by the end of the hour.
In a potential move that could change the landscape of the nation’s criminal justice system, president-elect Barack Obama reportedly has asked his advisers to put together a plan to close…
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear two cases that ask whether jurors considering the death penalty can consider emotional videos as victim impact evidence.
The Utah Supreme Court has refused to impose Rule 11 sanctions against two capital defense lawyers for raising “unwarranted and unjustifiable” claims in a habeas appeal. But the court’s opinion…
After six weeks of testimony, an expensive and controversial Georgia murder case against a defendant who allegedly shot to death a Fulton County judge and court reporter, among other victims,…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens called a Georgia capital case “particularly troubling” in a statement issued today, but said he agreed with the decision to deny certiorari.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by a death row inmate who claims the Eighth Amendment bars execution of those who are actually innocent.
Two appellate courts have rejected a convicted murderer’s request for a stay of execution that contends his obesity makes him a poor candidate for lethal injection.
Cases touching on religion and abortion were among several rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday. One concerns whether anti-abortion activists can force Arizona to issue “Choose Life” license plates,…
Some 40 years after a now-dead child serial killer admittedly stabbed a 16-year-old neighbor boy to death, authorities today are expected to begin excavating the Southern California site where they…
Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to grant a rehearing of its decision holding it is unconstitutional to impose the death penalty for child rape, SCOTUSblog reports.
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