Voting 5-4 on predictable lines, SCOTUS approves of appellate reweighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances to uphold a death sentence February 25, 2020
Ending JLWOP, Virginia makes all juvenile offenders eligible for parole (and thereby moots SCOTUS consideration of <em>Malvo</em> case) February 25, 2020
Without any comment, SCOTUS quickly denies cert on two big cases raising the constitutionality of acquitted conduct sentencing February 24, 2020
Via statement after cert denial, Justice Sotomayor makes lengthy case highlighting doubts about guilt of Texas capital defendant February 24, 2020