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Arkansas wants court to dissolve stay for death row prisoner
Supreme Court News 03/18/2018Lawyers for the state of Arkansas argued Friday that the state prison director has long had the power to determine a death row inmate's sanity and that now isn't the time to change the way it moves the prisoners closer to their executions.The argumen...
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California parents face new charges in kids' torture case
Supreme Court News 02/22/2018A Southern California couple suspected of starving and shackling some of their 13 children pleaded not guilty Friday to new charges of child abuse.David and Louise Turpin previously entered not-guilty pleas to torture and a raft of other charges and ...
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Supreme Court sides with Chicago museum in terror case
Supreme Court News 02/14/2018The Supreme Court is preventing survivors of a 1997 terrorist attack from seizing Persian artifacts at a Chicago museum to help pay a $71.5 million default judgment against Iran.The court ruled 8-0 Wednesday against U.S. victims of a Jerusalem suicid...