The impending execution of a man by firing squad in Utah was blocked by the state’s Supreme Court on Friday after his attorneys argued he should be spared because he has dementia.Ralph Leroy Menzies, ...
Samuel L. Smithers' final appeal to halt his execution has reached the nation's highest court, one day after the Florida Supreme Court affirmed his death sentence. Smithers' attorneys filed a petition ...
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block next week’s scheduled execution of Samuel Smithers for the murders of two women in Hillsborough County, rejecting arguments that he ...