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Thousands Travel Home To Ireland To Vote On Abortion Access

Just try to read these #HomeToVote tweets without crying.
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Death-Row Inmates Have A Right To Know The Identities Of Lethal Injection Suppliers, Court Rules

Missouri can’t keep secret the names of those who provide it with pentobarbital, a deadly anesthetic.
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Supreme Court Makes Slip-Up In Death Penalty Case

Two hours after saying it would hear two questions raised by a death row inmate, the court narrowed the case.
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Without Scalia, A Deadlocked Supreme Court Spares Death Row Inmate

An even split in a capital case is the starkest sign yet from a short-staffed court.
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Justice Scalia Calls Out A Colleague For Flip-Flopping On Juvenile Justice

"Mission accomplished," he snapped at Justice Kennedy.
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Supreme Court Sides With Children Automatically Sentenced To Die In Prison

Under the Constitution, those sentenced as minors to mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole may get a new day in court.
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Justice Breyer Is Dying For A Case That Will Kill The Death Penalty For Good

He's ready.
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'Wichita Massacre' Brothers Get Zero Sympathy From The Supreme Court

Kansas hasn't executed anyone in 50 years. Will it start now?
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The Supreme Court Spared A Man With A Brain Defect From Execution

"Violent and uncontrollable seizures" could result if Ernest Johnson is administered Missouri's drug protocol.
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Teens Sentenced To Die In Prison May Not Get A New Day In Court -- Yet

The Supreme Court may punt on the issue of life imprisonment for minors.
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