Supreme Court to weigh a Texas death row case
Supreme Court to weigh a Texas death row case after halting execution
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a Texas man on death row who has long argued that DNA testing would help prove he didn't kill an 85-year-old woman during a home robbery decades ago.
Texas death row inmate's DNA testing case goes to US Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by a Texas man who faces the death penalty for his role in the 1998 murder of an elderly mobile home park owner and is seeking DNA testing of evidence from the crime scene.
Supreme Court to hear arguments in the case of an Oklahoma death row inmate
One of Oklahoma’s most infamous death row inmates could have his fate decided at the highest court in the nation. Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of Richard Glossip. Glossip, who has narrowly avoided execution multiple times,
SC Supreme Court sets Nov. 1 as next execution date of a death row inmate
Richard Moore, who killed a Spartanburg store clerk while committing a robbery, is next in line for a state execution.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch files motion to Mississippi Supreme Court to set execution date for death row inmate
The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied an appeal for a 78-year-old death row inmate.
Mississippi Supreme Court narrowly refuses to hear evidence in case of man on death row
A narrowly divided Mississippi Supreme Court ruled against allowing new evidence to be presented by man on death row.
Supreme Court to review death penalty appeal challenging Texas’s DNA testing law
Ruben Gutierrez was sentenced to death for the 1998 Brownsville murder of an elderly woman. His execution was stayed in July.
TX lawmakers request clemency for death row inmate
Texas rarely grants clemency for death row inmates, but that’s not stopping a group of bipartisan lawmakers from showing their support for a man scheduled to be executed in October. Six state representatives visited Robert Roberson on Friday to urge the Texas Board of Pardon Paroles and Gov.
Death Penalty, Nuclear Waste and More: Supreme Court Rounds Out Coming Term
Three cases all stem from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, which often finds itself to the ...
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Missouri Supreme Court declines to halt Tuesday’s execution of a death row inmate who prosecutor says might be innocent
The Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Mike Parson have declined to halt Tuesday’s execution of a death row inmate prosecutors say may be innocent, leaving his fate in the hands of the US ...
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Missouri Supreme Court and governor refuse to halt the execution of man convicted of 1998 killing
Mike Parson, a Republican, rejected Williams’ clemency request to spare him from the death penalty and instead sentence him to life in prison. The Missouri Supreme Court, almost simultaneously ...
Major cases before the Supreme Court deal with transgender rights, guns, nuclear waste and vapes
The Supreme Court's new term begins Monday with a handful of important cases set to be heard and the possibility that the ...
Mississippi Supreme Court denies appeal for death row inmate sentenced in 1976 for killing Gulfport banker’s wife
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Mississippi’s longest death row inmate was denied appeal by the Mississippi Supreme Court on Tuesday ...
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Missouri Supreme Court to consider death row case a day before scheduled execution
Oral arguments were scheduled for Monday morning in the hearing before the state Supreme Court. Williams, 55, is set to die by injection Tuesday evening for the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha ...