Supreme Court Debates Teenage Executions
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WASHINGTON - 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.    Nineteen states allow capital punishment for 16- and 17-year-olds, and more than 70 juvenile murderers are on death row...
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The Supreme Court said on Friday it  would decide whether the death penalty can be imposed for the  crime of raping a child, expanding its review of how capital  punishment is carried out in the United States.
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The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether a murder victim's prior statements can be used against her killer in a case that tests the limits of a defendant's constitutional right to confront witnesses.
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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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And the question before the US Supreme Court today in a case from Missouri is whether, like mentally retarded killers, young killers should be spared execution under the Constitution&#39;s ban against &quot;cruel and unusual punishment.
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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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The Supreme Court&#039;s refusal Monday to consider a second lethal injection case suggests the justices are not ready to decide whether the drugs amount to cruel and unusual punishment, legal experts said.
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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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On Sunday, Aug. 15, a 16-year-old girl in the town of Neka, Iran, was executed by hanging. During her trial for charges of &quot;engaging in acts incompatible with chastity,&quot; the teenage victim did not have a lawyer.
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The Supreme Court said Monday that it would use the case of a Missouri death row inmate to consider the constitutionality of forcing defendants to appear before juries in chains and shackles.
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Several Supreme Court justices questioned yesterday whether a challenge to Kentucky's lethal-injection process brought by two death row inmates presents enough evidence to decide whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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Lethal injection procedures pose a danger of cruelly inhumane executions with excruciating pain, an attorney for two death row inmates told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in a capital punishment case that has drawn worldwide attention.
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Some of the major arguments at the Supreme Court in 2005:
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A Connecticut congregation debates capital punishment after the brutal murders of three of its members.
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One murder case has attracted special attention amid a debate over the safety of antidepressant use in children and teenagers.
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A man sentenced to life in prison for a fatal shooting at age 13 asked the state's high court for a new trial Tuesday, saying he was too young to be found competent for trial.
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On Monday, the court hears arguments on whether Kentucky's lethal injection is too painful.