US Supreme Court to examine death penalty for juveniles
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The US Supreme Court is to hear arguments on the legality of the death penalty for those who were 16 and 17 at the time of their crimes, although such punishment is increasingly rare in the 19 states that still allow it.
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BIG ISSUE: The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on whether the system for sentencing federal defendants should be thrown out because it lets judges, rather than juries, decide factors that add years to prison time.
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If the experience of those involved in past death penalty cases is any guide, the jurors in Scott Peterson's murder trial will have to grapple with raw and deep religious, moral and legal issues as they decide whether he lives or dies.
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The Supreme Court waded into a fierce international debate Friday over how the United States prosecutes foreigners in death penalty cases, agreeing to hear the case of a Mexican man in an unexpected move that expands the court's examination of fairness in capital punishment.
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The Supreme Court is considering whether the United States is out of step with the rest of the world, and with national and global standards of decency, by allowing teenage killers to be put to death.
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WASHINGTON - A deeply divided Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday over allowing states to execute teenage killers, with several justices raising concerns that the United States is out of step with the rest of the world.    Nineteen states allow capital punishment for juveniles, and more than 70 people who committed crimes as 16- and 17-year-olds are on death row...
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Remarks from participants and spectators as the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of executing people who were age 16 or 17 when they committed crimes.
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The Justice Department asked the US Supreme Court Tuesday to hear argument on whether federal anti-drug law can trump Oregon&#39;s assisted suicide law.
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The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to review for the second time the death penalty case of a convicted Texas killer whose sentence the justices had previously overturned.
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A Scot who was on death row in the US is to attend an appeal hearing which should see him released.
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The Supreme Court considered Tuesday whether a jury unfairly sentenced a Pennsylvania man to death on a 17-year-old murder conviction in a case expected to clarify death penalty standards for attorney conduct and jury instructions.
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Attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of a teen sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing his grandparents when he was 12, arguing that the sentence is cruel
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PHILADELPHIA - October 13 - With the Supreme Court now poised to decide if the death penalty for minors constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, will Pennsylvania and Delaware finally take a look at their own laws?
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The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider the constitutionality of a federal law that requires state prisons to accommodate inmate religions, from Christianity to Satanism.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a convicted murderer on Tuesday by lethal injection, the same day the U.S. Supreme Court said it will decide whether that method violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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The US Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday as it prepares to decide whether it is unconstitutionally cruel to sentence 16- and 17-year old criminals to death.
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The death of a 14-year-old boy in January led to an overhaul of FloridaÂs juvenile justice system.