Legal Commentary

SCOTUS grants last-minute execution stay in Alabama
According to this new AP story, a "murderer scheduled to die in what would have been the nation's first execution in months won a last-minute reprieve Thrusday from the U...

U.S. Supreme Court delays execution of Ga.
ATLANTA (AP) ? The U.S. Supreme Court gave a reprieve to a Georgia inmate less than two hours before his scheduled execution Tuesday for the 1989 slaying of an off-duty police officer...

More on Supreme Court Lifting of Stays
The Dallas Morning News reports, "Irving killer whose execution was blocked loses appeal...

"No reprieve for Mexican-born killer in Texas"
"No reprieve for Mexican-born killer in Texas": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "The U...

Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles Rejects Medellin Clemency
In the Dallas Morning News, Christy Hoppe reports, "Death-row inmate Medellín doesn't get a reprieve from Texas pardons board...

Alabama Supreme Court Stays Controversial Execution
"Court Votes to Postpone an Execution in Alabama," is the New York Times report. Thomas Arthur, a death-row inmate in Alabama, was granted a last-minute reprieve by the State Supreme Court on Wednesday evening after another convict confessed to the...