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So too did Myra Mann and her husband. "I reacted like everybody else," she says. "I thought, 'God, what people.' They looked rather sleazy. Later on I realized it was because they hadn't slept. They were in terror." The Manns have been obsessed with the case since 1986, taking...
In a 5-4 vote, theSupreme Court ruled that states can't place limits on the length of time members of congress can serve. The ruling strikes down an Arkansas term-limit law and similar measures passed by 21 other states. It is likely to slow the populist rush for...
By a 7-to-2 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states may not prohibit the dissemination of anonymous campaign literature. Citing free-speech guarantees, the Justices invalidated an Ohio election law-one akin to those found in many states-that required campaign pamphleteers to print their names and...
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens today issued a highly unusual essay asking judges across the country to study whether executing prisoners who have spent long periods on death row violates the Constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Stevens made the request in a two-page supplement to...