Entries tagged with “Justice Sonia Sotomayor”
Executions
Lethal Injection
,Jul 27, 2023
Alabama executes James Barber as SCOTUS denies a stay
On July 21, 2023, Alabama death row prisoner James Barber was executed two hours after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his motion for a stay in a 6 – 3 decision. This marks the state’s first execution since a series of three botched executions in 2022 and an internal investigation into the Alabama Department of Corrections’ (ADOC) execution…
Policy Issues
Race
,United States Supreme Court
,Apr 28, 2022
Supreme Court Refuses to Review Case in Which Texas Judge Seated Juror Who Believed ‘Non-White Races’ More Violent
Five years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas death sentence when an expert witness had testified that a Black defendant posed an increased risk of committing future acts of violence because of his race, the Court has refused to review another Texas capital case in which the trial court permitted a juror to serve who expressed the very same…