Alabama’s newly elected chief justice: Courts must do more to keep people from going back to prison
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice-elect Sarah Stewart told lawmakers and state leaders Tuesday that courts can do more to ...
Shomari Figures wins bid to represent Alabama district embroiled in Supreme Court case
Shomari Figures, the Black Democrat running in an Alabama congressional district redrawn last year by a court order, has won ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice, Court of Criminal Appeals & local amendments election results
Votes are being tallied in Alabama after residents cast their ballots in the November Election for president and other local ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Opinion
Alabama has a veterans controversy with national implications
By using dubious authority to fire the state's veterans commissioner, Gov. Kay Ivey (R-AL) has created a controversy that could blow up her own administration.
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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 ...