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Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled they are divided over the constitutionality of life sentences without parole for youths convicted of crimes other than murder.
The planned execution tonight of John Allen Muhammad remains set following the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal on Monday to stay the death sentence. Muhammad was convicted in 2003 in state court in Virginia for his role in the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks that killed 10 people. Justices John Paul Stevens, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg filed a two-page statement, saying: "This case ...
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled resistance to affording patent protection to abstract business innovations as they debated a case that has drawn an unprecedented level of corporate interest.
Glenn Paul/The Associated PressJoe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman when he was 13. He was photographed in 2007 at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Lake City, Fla. The photo was provided by the Equal...
U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared reluctant on Monday to make it unconstitutional for any juvenile who commits a crime other than murder to be sentenced to life in prison without possible release.
U.S. Supreme Court justices from across the spectrum voiced skepticism Monday about whether intangible business methods and other innovations untethered to machines deserved patent protection.
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused a last- minute appeal to stop the execution of John Muhammad, the sniper convicted in a case involving the Washington, D.C., area shootings in 2002.
After two hours of arguments Monday, Supreme Court justices seem split on whether states can mete out life sentences to juveniles who aren't killers.
Florida's tough prison sentences for juveniles came under scrutiny at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, with justices appearing divided about whether locking up teenagers for life constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to stop the execution of D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday night seven years after he and his then-teenage accomplice terrorized the District, Maryland and Virginia. The court's decision exhausts Muhammad's legal options, leaving an unlikely last-minute intervention by Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as his ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied convicted D.C. Sniper John Allen Muhammad's request to stay his execution. Barring any unforeseen intervention, the decision means that Muhammad will be put to death by the state of Virginia at 9 p.m. on Tuesday night. The Post notes that Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor all objected to the speed at which the high court made ...
John Allen Muhammad, 48, lost an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday. His last hope is a petition now before Gov. Timothy M. Kaine. Should Kaine decline to intervene, Muhammad is set to die by injection at 9 p.m. in the Greensville Correctional Center, near Jarratt.
WASHINGTON — Florida's tough prison sentences for juveniles came under scrutiny Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court, as the justices appeared divided over whether locking up teenagers for life constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
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The case of a Pensacola man sentenced to life in prison without parole for a crime committed at 13 is before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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