Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor led the court’s other two liberal justices in penning a dissent that condemned the use of nitrogen hypoxia in executions. Sotomayor — joined by Justices Ketanji ...
(CNN) — The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices on Thursday laid out a remarkable critique of nitrogen hypoxia executions, asserting that the new form of capital punishment causes “psychological ...
The state of Alabama has proved that it is incapable of consistently carrying out executions that conform to the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. After a series of botched ...
As a U.S. Supreme Court justice whose views of late are often heard in dissenting opinions, Sonia Sotomayor is accustomed to fighting for lost causes. The third woman and first Hispanic person on the ...
From left: U.S. Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Justice Sonia Sotomayor and University of Vermont president Marlene Tromp. Credit: Pool photo by Catherine Morrissey/For the Burlington Free Press U.S.
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The Democratic appointees dissented from the majority’s refusal to halt the execution of Charles Crawford, who, they said, raised an important issue. By Jordan Rubin The Supreme Court’s ...
WASHINGTON (CN) —The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review cases concerning a juror's pretrial lies in a death penalty case and the Seventh Amendment's enforceability against states. The ...
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student in 1993 was executed Wednesday. Charles Crawford, 59, was pronounced dead ...
SOTOMAYOR: You're saying that even white Republicans or white Democrats won't vote for Black candidates. MOOPPAN: But if these were white Democrats, there is no reason that there shouldn't be a second ...
Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over a $1.4 billion defamation judgment against him for his false claims that the 2012 shooting at ...