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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 whom lower courts found has an intellectual disability.

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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 on the IQ scores of Joseph Clifton Smith. The U.S. Supreme Court said the appeals court had been “unclear” in a ruling ...

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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 execution because he was found to be intellectually disabled. The justices concluded that the Atlanta-based 11th U.

The Hill on MSN · 2d

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

Figures wins Alabama Second Congressional District seat

YAHOO!News · 22h

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 the seat over Republican Caroleene Dobson, NBC News projects.

USA TODAY on MSN · 19h

Democrat Shomari Figures wins Alabama's redrawn 2nd Congressional District

Shomari Figures will become the first Black person to hold the seat in Alabama after it was created after a Supreme Court battle.

Yahoo · 22h

Democrats flip newly redrawn Alabama House district

Shomari Figures, a former aide to Attorney General Merrick Garland, is projected to win his House race in Alabama’s newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ. His victory gives Democrats a rare pickup opportunity in a ruby-red state that former President Trump won by 25 points in 2020.

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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.

Alabama State Supreme Court Results 2024

View election results for the 2024 Alabama State Supreme Court race. Follow live outcomes and see maps of the results by county during the general election race.

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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Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice, Court of Criminal Appeals & local amendments election results

Votes are being tallied in Alabama after residents cast their ballots in the November Election for president and other local ...

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Stewart wins election as Alabama chief justice

Alabama Supreme Court Justice Sarah Stewart has made history after becoming the first Republican woman elected as chief ...

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 ...

Election Day in Alabama: Live updates from the polls

Election Day is here in Alabama, and the state's voters will help decide the next president and the balance of power in ...

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