High Court Hears Texas Inmate's Case
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The Supreme Court considered Monday whether an almost all-white Texas jury unfairly convicted and sentenced a black man to death, the latest in a string of capital cases to reach the court from the state that executes more people than any other.
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US Supreme Court agrees to consider challenges to lethal injection filed by two death row inmates.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review for the second time the death penalty case of a convicted Texas killer whose sentence justices previously overturned.
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The Supreme Court, in a case being watched around the world, on Monday hears arguments about whether to ban the lethal three-drug cocktail used in most U.S. executions because it inflicts excruciating pain.
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The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that an immigrant convicted of a state felony drug charge that would be a lesser crime under federal law may contest the government's decision to deport him.
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WASHINGTON -- A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the execution of a Texas killer whose lawyers argued that he should not be put to death because he is mentally ill.
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The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on  Monday a ruling that a Qatari national and suspected al Qaeda  operative must bring his lawsuit seeking his release in federal  court in South Carolina, where he is being held in a U.S.  military prison.
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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 Monday cast doubt on the constitutionality of guidelines that federal judges use in sentencing offenders.
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The state's corrections system is dangerously overcrowded and in crisis. A federal panel is about to render a judgment that could force open prison doors
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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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The U.S. Supreme Court said on  Friday it would decide the case of a Mexican citizen on death  row in Texas who was denied the right to meet a consular  officer from his home country after his arrest for murder.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday stopped the execution of a Texas convict scheduled to be put to death for the 1998 killing of his parents, two days after the court said it will consider whether lethal injection violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Testimony from former inmates is to be heard at the trial of the alleged ringleader of the Abu Ghraib prison abuses.
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The Supreme Court on Monday overturned the death sentence of a convicted Texas killer because jurors in his trial did not consider his learning disability and other evidence.
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TOLEDO, July 2 -- The mother of a condemned inmate whose execution took almost 90 minutes -- an hour longer than is typical -- sued the head of Ohio's prisons Monday.
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A prisoner says he needed medical help after hearing an alleged confession in the Michael Stone appeal.