Arkansas Supreme Court to hear appeal of death row inmate, claims of ineffective lawyers
The Arkansas Supreme Court will take up the case of a death row inmate who claims his attorneys erred in failing to present ...
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Arkansas Supreme Court to hear death row appeal citing lack of ‘compelling account’ of brain dysfunction
The Arkansas Supreme Court will hear death row inmate Zachary Holly's appeal next month after he claimed his attorneys failed to present evidence that he was sexually abused as a child, along with ...
Alabama death row inmate asks Supreme Court to halt next week’s execution
Attorneys for Alabama Death Row inmate Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case, ...
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Supreme Court Denies Alabama Appeal, Allowing New Trial in Death Row Case
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court ruling that Alabama prosecutors violated Michael Sockwell's constitutional rights by intentionally rejecting Black jurors, paving the way ...
Ease of claiming low IQ at center of Supreme Court death penalty case
Decades ago, the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it weighs the use of IQ tests in close calls.
One of Alabama’s longest-serving death row inmates may get a new trial after Supreme Court ruling
Michael Sockwell was convicted in the 1988 killing of a Montgomery County deputy in a murder-for-hire arranged by the deputy's wife.