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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The case of a painter on death row walks a thin line between 'murderabilia' and prisoners' rights.
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A Muslim inmate says prisoners around the country are regularly mistreated by their jailers because of religious faith. The Supreme Court is considering his case Monday.
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DALLAS, Dec. 16 -- Nearly 10 months after reports of inmate abuse first surfaced, not everyone agrees with claims of progress in reforming the agency that oversees the Texas juvenile prison system.
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A lawyer representing a Texas death row inmate urged the court to rebuke the state and federal judges who supervise the state's capital punishment system, as oral argument on a case of alleged racial discrimination was heard.
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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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A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the execution of a Texas killer, saying lower courts should have considered psychiatric evidence about his mental illness.
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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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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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Reversing course, the Supreme Court agreed today to review whether GuantÃ¡namo Bay detainees may go to federal court to challenge their indefinite confinement.
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A U.S. federal court ruled Monday that Osama bin Laden's driver was entitled to a legal hearing on whether he is a prisoner of war &#151; a landmark opinion that could prevent military trials of alleged enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay.
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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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ATLANTA, June 14 -- Georgia's Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to hear the state's arguments for keeping in prison a man who had consensual sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. The state's attorney general later said the prisoner's  release could lead to  hundreds of incarcerated child...
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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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The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider the constitutionality of lethal injections in a case that could affect the way inmates are executed around the country
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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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Stephen E. Abraham may have played a key role in the Supreme Courtâs reversal of its stance on GuantÃ¡namo Bay prisoners.