Soon-to-be Alabama chief justice eyes job court program to reduce recidivism
Entry Commission meeting, incoming Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Sarah Stewart laid out some of her plans for when she ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 cruel and unusual punishment. Later decisions in 2014 and 2016 faulted ...
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Incoming Alabama chief justice proposes job court to address recidivism
A prison corridor in Holman Correctional Facility in 2019. Sarah Stewart, the incoming Alabama Chief Justice, told lawmakers ...
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 ...
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 ...
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In rare flip, Shomari Figures wins Alabama’s 2nd district
Shomari Figures won an Alabama congressional seat in a district that was redrawn last year after the Supreme Court weighed in ...
Sarah Stewart elected Alabama Chief Justice
Alabama Supreme Court Associate Justice Sarah Stewart will be the state’s next chief justice, winning election easily Tuesday ...
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Election Day in Alabama: Live updates from the polls
Items on the ballot range from a state amendment, to a race for chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, to a showdown for control of a newly redrawn congressional district. Voters can see a ...
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 ...
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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. Joseph Smith ...