Chief Justice John Roberts was deciding Thursday whether to grant the state's request, after a federal judge last week ordered Justin Wolfe be freed as early as 5 p.m.
Chief Justice John Roberts was deciding Thursday whether to grant the state's request, after a federal judge last week ordered Justin Wolfe be freed as early as 5 p.m.
Virginia officials have asked the U.S. Supreme Court for emergency intervention to block the imminent release of a death-row inmate, whose murder-for-hire conviction has been questioned after allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.
New Hampshire's only death row inmate, Michael Addison, got a very long day in court Wednesday. New Hampshire's highest court held what may be an unprecedented hearing - more than five hours - to review Addison's trial and his death sentence for the 2006 shooting of Manchester police officer Michael Briggs. NHPR's Josh Rogers was at the hearing and he tells All Things Considered host Brady ...
A death row inmate has lost another appeal in the slayings of his former girlfriend and a football player at an apartment on the University of Miami's campus.
A death row inmate has lost another appeal in the slayings of his former girlfriend and a football player at an apartment on the University of Miami's campus.
A death row inmate has lost another appeal in the slayings of his former girlfriend and a football player at an apartment on the University of Miami's campus.
State prosecutors are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to deny last-minute appeals on behalf of an Arizona death-row inmate scheduled for execution Wednesday.