Put differently, they are not empowered to render “advisory opinions” and offer “nonbinding interpretation(s) of law.” As law professor Christian Burset notes, “The prohibition against advisory ...

Big, serious, aggressive stands for robust constitutional protection of individual rights, even of accused criminals, are rare commodities.

T Legislature is the only entity that can create or remove a monument, according to a law in response to an effort to put a ...

A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday agreed that people incarcerated within Alabama's ...

The court acknowledged the ADOC's suicide rate was “more than double the national average among state and federal ...

If you're wondering what constitutional standard governs the state's authority to execute a convicted murderer, you are asking the right question.

The Pung family got a mixed result. The Supreme Court ruled the auction price is the baseline for compensation but sent the ...

A proposed amendment would change how Kansas Supreme Court justices are selected, moving from a commission-based appointment to a public election. The current system uses a nominating commission of ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Alabama from executing a man using nitrogen hypoxia, a relatively new method of carrying out the death penalty that experts say causes “air hunger” and that a ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Attorneys are calling on Governor Bill Lee to pause all state executions, following the failed execution of death row inmate Tony Carruthers. This comes after Tony Carruthers, the ...