US Supreme Court to review executions for child rape
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The US Supreme Court said Friday it would hear a case on whether the constitution permits extending capital punishment beyond murder to a man convicted of raping, but not killing a child.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A U.S. court granted a stay of execution to a convicted killer set to be put to death in Alabama on Thursday, the latest such move since the Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to lethal injection.
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The US Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a landmark case under Title IX, the 1972 federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded education.
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The Supreme Court agreed to review a murder case in which a judge excluded reliable evidence that someone other than the defendant was the killer, one of three criminal appeals the justices accepted Thursday.
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Libya&#39;s Supreme Court will rule on  Wednesday on an appeal by six foreign medics sentenced to death  for infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus  following a report of a deal for their release.
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The Supreme Court has sentenced a man to death by hanging for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl after luring her to a sugarcane field in Uttar Pradesh nearly four years ago.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled to assess the morality and propriety of states' executing murderers who killed at age 16 or 17 &#151; the ultimate punishment carried out in few places outside the United States.
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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 will hear arguments on Monday in a death penalty case being watched around the world, to decide whether the lethal injections used to execute criminals cause unacceptable pain.
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The US Supreme Court is reviewing whether the federal government can prosecute sick people who use marijuana for medicine in states where it is legal.
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The U.S. Supreme Court questioned on  Wednesday whether world opinion against the death penalty for  juveniles should influence its decision on the  constitutionality of executing those who committed murder at  age 16 or 17.
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The Supreme Court struggled Wednesday with whether to stop states from executing juvenile killers, though a majority of the justices seemed to agree a consensus
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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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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled to assess the morality and propriety of states' executing murderers who killed at age 16 or 17 - the ultimate punishment carried out in few places outside the United States.    The court has outlawed executions for those 15 and under when they committed their crimes...
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A plea to declare capital punishment for juvenile offenders unconstitutional received a skeptical hearing at the Supreme Court yesterday, as one of two justices likely to be pivotal to the outcome voiced repeated doubts.
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Connecticut's attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to lift an order protecting a serial killer and clear the way for New England's first execution in 45 years to take place early Saturday.
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The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take a hard look at the method of lethal injection most states use to put inmates to death in a case that could further slow the pace of executions.