Gail Gibson

High court OKs challenge to lethal injection

August 21, 2021 at 9:30 a.m.

The Supreme Court on Monday broadened the legal path for Death Row inmates to challenge lethal injection as an inhumane method of execution. Settling a technical--but potentially crucial--procedural matter, the...

Rehnquist dies at age 80

August 21, 2019 at 9:13 p.m.

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who joined the bench a generation ago as its often lone voice of conservative dissent and then steadily steered its turn to the right, died...

Court reverses conviction of Enron auditor

August 22, 2019 at 10:32 p.m.

The Supreme Court threw out the government's high-profile conviction against Arthur Andersen yesterday, saying in a unanimous and swift decision that jurors relied on flawed instructions in 2002 when they...

Soldiers surround an Iraqi detainee in this photo obtained by The New Yorker, said to have be taken in December 2003, at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq.

Testimony begins on England’s sentence

March 29, 2019 at 5:57 p.m.

FORT HOOD, Texas - A defense lawyer for Pfc. Lynndie R. England said yesterday that the young woman who became a symbolic figure in the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal would...

England pleads guilty to abuse

March 28, 2019 at 12:42 a.m.

FORT HOOD, Texas - Pfc. Lynndie R. England, the young Army reservist whose grinning, thumbs-up image came to symbolize the worst of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, told a military...

Schiavo dies, anger remains

August 21, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

What began as one family's bitter split over painful end-of-life decisions and grew into an unprecedented political battle that reached Congress, the White House and the Vatican ended yesterday with...

As Schiavo saga winds down, leaders pursue broader debate

August 21, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

Efforts by lawmakers in Washington to prolong the life of Terri Schiavo failed in the courts and tanked in opinion polls, but intense interest in the Florida woman's saga is...

For Congress, a quiet retreat from Schiavo

August 21, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

WASHINGTON - After rushing headlong into the emotional fray over the life of a brain-damaged Florida woman just a week ago, political leaders reacted to the apparent end of the...

Terri Schiavo in her 1981 Archbishop Wood High School yearbook in Warminster, Pennsylvania.

Legal options waning in Schiavo case

August 21, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

With their daughter near death, the parents of Terri Schiavo saw their legal options to prolong her life all but disappear yesterday as the U.S. Supreme Court refused to order...

Court refuses to reinsert Schiavo’s tube

August 21, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

The extraordinary legal and political scramble to try to prolong Terri Schiavo's life seemed to approach a finale yesterday, with a federal appeals court twice refusing to order her feeding...

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