Supreme Court to Hear Pa. Death Row Appeal
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The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a death row appeal from a Pennsylvania man who says jurors should have been told they could have sentenced him to prison without parole.
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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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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 weighs whether to ban the death penalty for anyone under 18.
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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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On Monday, the court hears arguments on whether Kentucky's lethal injection is too painful.
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The Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a case on whether judges can consider the alleged unfairness of a federal law regarding sentences for selling crack and powder cocaine when deciding on jail time for such crimes.
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A federal appeals court issued a stay of execution Monday for a convicted killer who had stopped appealing his death sentence and was set to be die in the electric chair.
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The Supreme Court said Thursday it will quickly release audio tapes after the Jan. 7 argument over the death penalty.
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A federal appeals court cleared the  way on Friday for Connecticut to execute a serial killer who  wants to die but gave the man's father a last-minute chance to  ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.
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Prosecutors said Tuesday they will appeal a ruling that overturned the conviction of a day care provider accused of shaking a baby to death in 1995.
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A federal appeals court on Friday ordered a new sentencing hearing for a death row inmate convicted of killing three men 26 years ago.
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The Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would decide whether the commonly used lethal injection method of execution for death row inmates violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Two men jailed for life for killing rival drug dealers will have their case heard in the Court of Appeal.
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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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US Supreme Court agrees to consider challenges to lethal injection filed by two death row inmates.
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A killer whose life was spared last year when Illinois' governor emptied out death row could again face a death sentence &#151; this time in Missouri &#151; if convicted of murdering his boss in St. Louis.