Shomari Figures wins bid to represent Alabama district embroiled in Supreme Court case
Shomari Figures, the Black Democrat running in an Alabama congressional district redrawn last year by a court order, has won ...
Alabama’s newly elected chief justice: Courts must do more to keep people from going back to prison
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice-elect Sarah Stewart told lawmakers and state leaders Tuesday that courts can do more to ...
Supreme Court orders more review of Alabama’s request to execute inmate courts said is intellectually disabled
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at the case of a death row inmate in Alabama ...
Cruel and unusual? Supreme Court wants new ruling in case involving convicted murderer with low IQ
In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that executing someone with an intellectual disability violates the 8 th Amendment’s ban on ...
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US Supreme Court tosses intellectual disability ruling on death row inmate
The U.S. Supreme Court threw out on Monday a judicial decision that had spared a man convicted of murder in Alabama from ...
Alabama Supreme Court justice questions ‘badly misguided’ Birmingham police chase policy in child’s wrongful death case
A lawsuit against the City of Birmingham involving the 2020 death of a Birmingham 5-year-old who was killed in a hit-and-run ...
RACE CALLED: Alabama Supreme Court Associate Justice Sarah Stewart wins Chief Justice
ALABAMA (WHNT) — Republican Associate Justice Sarah Stewart has been elected Chief Justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court.
US Supreme Court calls ruling ‘unclear’ on whether Alabama Death Row inmate Joseph Clifton Smith intellectually disabled
The nation’s highest court weighed in on an Alabama Death Row inmate’s case on Monday, asking the appeals court to again rule ...
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Supreme Court to Hear Louisiana Congressional Map Case After Election
The Supreme Court ultimately upheld the Alabama ruling, prompting the creation of a new map with an additional district ...
Supreme Court sends case testing limits of death penalty for intellectually disabled back to lower court
The Supreme Court vacated a federal appeals court’s decision blocking a death row inmate’s execution because he says he’s intellectually disabled, ordering the lower court to issue a clearer ...
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Sarah Stewart wins Alabama Supreme Court chief justice race
AL General Election Results - Supreme Court Chief Justice. Sarah Stewart has won the general election for chief justice of ...