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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Sarah Stewart wins Alabama Supreme Court chief justice race
AL General Election Results - Supreme Court Chief Justice. Sarah Stewart has won the general election for chief justice of ...
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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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
US Supreme Court calls ruling ‘unclear’ on whether Alabama Death Row inmate Joseph Clifton Smith intellectually disabled
Supreme Court rules require four justices to vote for a case review. Smith’s court battle has been waged in the federal court ...
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 ...
Supreme Court sends case testing limits of death penalty for intellectually disabled back to lower court
The Supreme Court vacated a federal appeals court’s decision blocking a death row inmate’s execution because he says he’s intellectually disabled, ordering the lower court to issue a clearer ...
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Cruel and unusual? Supreme Court wants new ruling in case involving convicted murderer with low IQ
WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review whether a convicted murder’s intellectual disability is severe enough that he can’t be executed, directing a lower court to first ...