Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey executed after Supreme Court rejects bids to intervene Washington — Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey was executed on Tuesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court declined ... 04/9/2024 - 1:51 pm | View Link
Missouri death row inmate executed despite widespread calls for clemency Brian Dorsey, convicted of murdering his cousin and her husband, put to death amid efforts by many to have his sentence commuted ... 04/9/2024 - 11:35 am | View Link
Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey executed by lethal injection The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to halt the execution of Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey, who was convicted of murdering his cousin and her husband nearly 20 years ago.Dorsey is set to ... 04/9/2024 - 4:49 am | View Link
Missouri death row inmate nears execution with appeals before Supreme Court The fate of a Missouri man convicted of killing his cousin and her husband nearly two decades ago appears to rest with the U.S. Supreme Court, with just hours to go before the scheduled execution ... 04/8/2024 - 3:05 pm | View Link
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’s appeals court judge. But the supreme ... 04/8/2024 - 7:56 am | View Link
During a Supreme Court hearing on Idaho abortion law, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and Justice Samuel Alito clashed over fetal protections under federal law EMTALA. Prelogar argues women deserve necessary medical care, challenging Alito's focus on "unborn child" protections.
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Arizona doctors could give their patients abortions in California under a proposal announced Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to circumvent a ban on nearly all abortions in that state.
It would apply only to doctors licensed in good standing in Arizona and their patients, and last only through the end of November.
Defendants in Colorado sexual assault cases soon will be prohibited from using what a victim was wearing or a victim’s hairstyle as evidence of consent.
Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera, who is the acting governor this week, signed House Bill 1072 Wednesday afternoon. The bipartisan legislation is aimed at strengthening protections for sex assault victims in court by expanding the rape shield law.
John Cage, the influential composer and artist, is dead. So it’s technically impossible to know with absolute certainty how he would feel about the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University.
But the question emerges after New York Times columnist John McWhorter, a music humanities and linguistics professor at Columbia, wrote that he was forced to stop students from playing Cage’s 4’33”—a seminal work that’s effectively four minutes and 33 seconds of silence (though Cage-heads might disagree with that description)—because of the demonstrations.