In Tuesday's Hoffman v. Westcott, the Court denied a stay of execution; Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson would have granted a stay, but didn't write ...

The Supreme Court’s decision last year in Trump v. United States gave the president of the United States criminal immunity ...

The Trump appointee isn’t known for siding with death row prisoners. But the reason he gave for doing so in a Louisiana case ...

Kevin Burns says every day is the best day of his life. In his nearly 30 years on death row, he has been ordained as a pastor and started a church.

Casting aside the most successful policies on the globe is a risky business, as is abandoning the most successful ideological ...

A divided Supreme Court declined to block the execution of Jessie Hoffman, who was put to death on Tuesday night in Louisiana. Four justices would have put Hoffman’s execution on hold – one short of ...

Justice Neil Gorsuch broke with the Supreme Court majority on a decision for a stay of execution for the first time this term ...

Louisiana carried out its first execution in 15 years Tuesday night, executing Jessie Hoffman using nitrogen hypoxia after ...

Meanwhile, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissenting opinion ... “It is difficult to read the dissent and conclude that we are looking at the same case,” Gorsuch wrote.

There’s a theme emerging in the Trump administration’s battles in courtrooms across the country contesting an array of ...