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 on the IQ scores of Joseph Clifton Smith. The U.S. Supreme Court said the appeals court had been “unclear” in a ruling ...
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 whom lower courts found has an intellectual disability.
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 intellectually disabled.
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 execution because he was found to be intellectually disabled. The justices concluded that the Atlanta-based 11th U.
Supreme Court sends case testing limits of death penalty for intellectually disabled back to lower court
The Supreme Court vacated a federal appeals court’s decision blocking a death row inmate’s execution because he says he’s intellectually disabled, ordering the lower court to issue a clearer ruling. After sitting on Alabama’s appeal of the decision for months — an unusual move for the court — the justices issued a per
Don’t allow the artificial to overwhelm the eternal, Elder David A. Bednar encourages
No matter how sophisticated and elegant AI technology ultimately may become, it simply can never bear witness of the Father ...
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 ...
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Supreme Court will hear case on second majority-Black district in Louisiana redistricting
The court also sent Joseph Smith’s case from Alabama’s death row back to the court of appeals for more clarification of the basis for the lower court’s decision. Alabama had asked the justices to ...
These historians spent years studying the prophet Joseph Smith’s life. Here’s what they learned about him
For Latter-day Saints across the globe, Thursday marks the 180th anniversary of a tragedy — on June 27, 1844, an armed mob ...
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Joseph Smith
Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr. grew up on a series of tenant farms in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York. Though in his youth ...
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David Joseph Smith OBITUARY - The Denver Post
SMITH, DAVID JOSEPH Fisherman/Carpet Installer, 54 David Smith of Denver. Son of the late Joseph and Lorraine Smith; brother of Kathy Tuller, Joan Moline, Ed Smith, Linda Smith, Dan ...
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Obituary: Frederick Joseph Foss Sr.
NORRIDGEWOCK - Frederick Joseph Foss, Sr., 81, passed away on Oct. 16, 2024, in Skowhegan. Frederick, or “Fred” as he was ...