The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in an Arizona death penalty case that could redefine the precedent for establishing ...
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a case brought by the state of Arizona against an incarcerated man ...
As for the standard of representation, the Supreme Court in Strickland v. Washington (1984) adopted a two-step test for ineffective assistance of counsel claims. To set aside a plea, verdict ...
The brief calls the decision made by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) in April 2023 to uphold Glossip’s ...
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed court papers with the U.S. Supreme Court detailing why the execution of ...
Right: The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court (Alex Wong/Getty images). In a highly unusual turn of events, the State of ...
The US Supreme Court wrestled with whether a new hearing is required for an Arizona man on death row who’s been before the ...
The Florida Supreme Court declined to hear the case in February 2021. Sotomayor concluded the Florida courts “failed to protect that core constitutional guarantee” of effective assistance of counsel. ...
In the Supreme Court's January decision, it overturned a precedent set in 2013 in another death row case in which a man was denied relief, also for ineffective assistance of counsel in post ...
He pointed to the "remarkable and remarkably flawed decision” by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals last year to uphold ...
Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed a brief on Tuesday with the U.S. Supreme Court, explaining why the execution of death ...
The Alabama Supreme Court authorized an execution for Keith Gavin. His date for the lethal injection has not been set.