Death Penalty
Supreme Court dismisses Alabama appeal in death-penalty case involving intellectual disability
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The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed Alabama’s appeal in Hamm v. Smith as “improvidently granted,” leaving intact lower-court rulings that bar the execution of Joseph Clifton Smith, a death-row prisoner found by federal courts to be intellectually disabled.
Tennessee called off the execution of death row inmate Tony Carruthers on Thursday after prison staff could not establish an intravenous line for the lethal drugs. Officials made repeated attempts over more than an hour before stopping the procedure.
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Pope Leo XIV condemned capital punishment as incompatible with human dignity in a Vatican-released video message timed with the Trump administration’s move to expand federal execution methods to include firing squads and a reinstated lethal-injection protocol using pentobarbital.
The Fukuoka High Court rejected an appeal for a retrial on Monday over the 1992 murder of two 7-year-old girls in Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture. The defense for the executed death row convict plans to file a special appeal with the Supreme Court against the decision.