WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a new sentencing for a Texas death row inmate because of testimony at his trial that he might pose a future threat because he was a black man. Chief Justice John Roberts ...

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PHOENIX — The recent revelation that condemned prisoners in Arizona can now provide the lethal drugs to be used in their executions has received attention around the world and raised questions about the state’s rules for the death penalty. The ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court signaled support Monday for a black death row inmate in Georgia who claims prosecutors improperly kept African-Americans off the jury that convicted him of killing a white woman. Justice Stephen Breyer likened the chief ...

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PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to consider an appeal filed on behalf of an Arizona death row inmate convicted of the 1986 killing of a Nevada man. The high court on Monday rejected the appeal for ...

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JACKSON, Miss. — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from a Mississippi death row inmate who argued there was an alleged constitutional error in his trial for the slaying of a junior college student. Charles Ray ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says federal judges cannot indefinitely delay a death row inmate’s federal appeals to see if the convict can become mentally competent enough to help his lawyer. The high court unanimously ruled Tuesday against Arizona death row ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says a death row inmate can’t change his court-appointed appeals lawyer because he didn’t like the lawyer’s defense tactics. The justices on Monday turned away the appeal from Kenneth Clair, who was sentenced to death ...

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FLORENCE, Ariz. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to stop the execution of an Arizona death-row inmate hours before he was set to die by lethal injection for killing two people in a 1989 convenience store robbery.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from a death row in inmate in Texas whose lawyers say they have been unable to get a court to consider claims that their client is mentally retarded, and thus ineligible for execution.

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