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US Supreme Court dismisses dispute over death row inmate's intellectual disability finding
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a challenge by Alabama officials to a judicial finding that a death row inmate convicted of a 1997 murder is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty.

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 · 21h
Supreme Court dismisses Alabama's bid to execute inmate with borderline intellectual disability
 · 22h · on MSN
Supreme Court dismisses case on death penalty for inmates with intellectual disabilities
 · 22h
Supreme Court dismisses case, sparing life of convicted murderer with low IQ
The Supreme Court on May 21 declined to revisit the standard for when an intellectual disability prevents the death penalty, ruling they should not have taken a case about whether Alabama can execute ...

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 · 22h
Justices Decline to Rule in Death Penalty Case Over Intellectual Disabilities
 · 19h
US Supreme Court averts inmate's execution in intellectual disability case
 · 21h
SCOTUS narrowly spares 'intellectually disabled' murderer from execution
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts dissented.

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 · 21h
Court sidesteps death-row IQ dispute
 · 14h
US Supreme Court upholds ruling sparing Alabama death row inmate from execution
The Hill
2mon

Supreme Court won’t hear Texas death row inmate’s bid for DNA testing again

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed’s fight for DNA testing nearly three years after allowing his bid to prove his innocence to move forward, a move that paves the way for his execution. Reed was convicted ...
Orlando Sentinel
1mon

Lake judge denies death row inmate Duckett’s plea to study DNA test results

A Lake County judge on Wednesday turned down a request by death row inmate James Duckett to order a further analysis of DNA test results in the case of an 11-year-old girl who was brutally murdered nearly 40 years ago. The tests — conducted last month by ...
The New York Times
2mon

Supreme Court Rejects Appeal From Death Row Inmate Seeking DNA Testing

Rodney Reed’s quest over the last decade to obtain DNA testing to try to prove his innocence has attracted wide attention. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington The Supreme Court on Monday turned aside a long-running appeal from Rodney Reed, a ...
Sun Sentinel
1mon

Florida judge denies death row inmate Duckett’s plea to study DNA test results

A Lake County judge on Wednesday turned down a request by death row inmate James Duckett to order a further analysis of DNA test results in the case of an 11-year-old girl who was brutally murdered nearly 40 years ago. The tests — conducted last month by ...
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