Kenneth Eugene Smith: Alabama carries out first nitrogen gas execution

The execution began at 19:53 local time (01:53 GMT) and he was pronounced dead at 20:25 (02:35 GMT). Alabama and two other US states have ... On Thursday night, the Supreme Court denied him ... Read More

Alabama murderer gives up appeals and asks to be executed so that victims’ families have ‘justice’

Dearman made his announcement two months after the Alabama Supreme Court denied an application to ... “They said, ‘Derrick just give us a few years in this appeal process,’” he said. Read More

First Thing: Anti-abortion mega-donors pour money into Alabama supreme court race

A group connected to anti-abortion billionaire Trump mega-donors has funneled more than half a million dollars to an Alabama supreme ... Seth Wenig/AP The US supreme court agreed yesterday to ... Read More

Alabama convict who robbed, killed elderly couple gets execution date

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey set the date for the execution by lethal injection of Jamie Mills, 50. The Alabama Supreme Court ... out the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas earlier this year ... Read More

Alabama Supreme Court will not toss out Harvest lawsuit

Attorneys for UMC wanted the lawsuit tossed out, claiming that the dispute was ecclesiastical and must be settled among themselves. Read More

Supreme Court likely to side with Starbucks, curtail labor board authority

The Supreme Court appeared prepared to side with Starbucks in its request to curtail the National Labor Relations Board’s authority in determining whether fired union activists should get their jobs ... Read More

US Supreme Court examines firings of pro-union Starbucks workers

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday steps into the contentious unionization drive at Starbucks as the coffee chain challenges a judicial order requiring it to rehire seven employees at a Tennessee cafe ... Read More

Supreme Court will decide whether Trump is immune from federal prosecution. Here's what's next

The Supreme Court will consider a straightforward but legally untested question: whether a former president is immune from federal prosecution for official acts. Read More

Supreme Court weighs mifepristone access in latest flashpoint abortion case

Most Supreme Court justices appeared wary Tuesday of letting abortion opponents sue to restrict access to mifepristone, used in nearly two-thirds of all US pregnancy terminations last year. Read More

Missouri death row inmate’s attorneys ask supreme court to block execution

Petition argues that Brian Dorsey is fully rehabilitated and that execution would violate eighth amendment Attorneys for a Missouri death row inmate have asked the US supreme court to block an ... Read More

Supreme Court Unpersuaded

But, "under federal law, no doctors can be forced against ... Neil Gorsuch yesterday. Alabama referendum on IVF decision: In February, Alabama's state supreme court ruled, quite controversially ... Read More

ISIS-K could slip through US border and carry out Moscow-style attack, US official warns

ISIS-K terrorists could cross America’s porous borders, and carry out an attack like the ... K member lacks resources in the US, it doesn’t mean terrorists can’t sow death and mayhem once ... Read More