Death Penalty Case Gets Skeptical Hearing
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A bid to declare capital punishment for juveniles unconstitutional was met with doubts from one of two Supreme Court justices likely to be pivotal in its outcome.
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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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Questions to be asked over whether there was ever a realistic chance of prosecutions.
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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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Serious problems in state death penalty systems compromise fairness and accuracy in capital punishment cases and justify a nationwide freeze on executions, the American Bar Association says.
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The decision to seek the death penalty for detainees who will likely face war-crimes charges would present new challenges to a troubled system that has yet to begin a single trial.
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While it is risky to predict how the justices will decide, some expressed skepticism today about the case.
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Lethal injection, when used for the first time in Texas nearly 22 years ago, was touted as a more humane way to execute prisoners than the firing squad, hanging, the gas chamber or even the electric chair. Today, though, death penalty opponents are challenging that notion based on the Constitution's Eighth Amendment, which prohibits "cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
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Defense attorneys and death penalty opponents were outraged Thursday over an execution in which the condemned man took more than half an hour to die, needed a rare second dose of lethal chemicals, and appeared to grimace in his final moments.
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The jury, convinced by the weight of circumstantial evidence, will return Nov. 22 to decide if he deserves the death penalty. By Associated Press.
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The Supreme Court prepares to hear a case on lethal injections that could cause us to rethink our haphazard system of capital punishment
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The US Supreme Court will on Monday begin hearing arguments on the thorny issue of lethal injections in a bid to determine if this method of executing death-row inmates conforms with the constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishment.
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A convicted killer who argued that Florida's use of lethal injection amounted to cruel and unusual punishment was put to death Wednesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly denied him another stay.
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Although they disagree about whether it was the right decision, some Saginaw residents say they aren&#39;t surprised that a California jury Monday recommended the death penalty for Scott Peterson.
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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 case of a painter on death row walks a thin line between 'murderabilia' and prisoners' rights.
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The Supreme Court Monday cast doubt on the constitutionality of guidelines that federal judges use in sentencing offenders.