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 ...
US Supreme Court calls ruling ‘unclear’ on whether Alabama Death Row inmate Joseph Clifton Smith intellectually disabled
asking the appeals court to again rule on the IQ scores of Joseph Clifton Smith. The U.S. Supreme Court said the appeals ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Supreme Court will hear case on second majority-Black district in Louisiana redistricting
The Supreme Court will hear arguments early next year in the latest ... a second majority-Black congressional district in the state. The court also sent Joseph Smith’s case from Alabama’s death row ...
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 ...
Supreme Court Orders New Look at IQ Scores in Death Resentencing
The US Supreme Court ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at how it decided an Alabama man on death row was ...
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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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The strange case that the Supreme Court keeps refusing to decide
He received a JD from Duke University and is the author of two books on the Supreme Court. Monday’s order is probably bad news for Joseph Clifton Smith, the death row inmate at the heart of this ...
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Court will hear case on second majority-Black district in Louisiana redistricting
The justices had considered Joseph Smith’s case at a record 24 consecutive conferences. The justices added two cases to the 2024-25 term in a list of orders on Monday. (Katie Barlow) By Ronald Mann on ...
'Dismissal Required'?: Trump Cites Another Supreme Court Ruling in DC Jan. 6 Case
"The theory of the case for Trump has an element that focuses on the creation of false evidence—namely, the false slates of ...