“The Supreme Court has a limited role to play death penalty cases,” said Paul Cassell, a University of Utah law professor who is representing a victim’s family in another death penalty case before the high court this year.
Another involves an Alabama man who claims he is intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for execution under Supreme Court precedent.
The Supreme Court’s approach to death penalty appeals is “to correct severe misapplications of constitutional law by America’s state court systems,” said Seth Kretzer, a Texas attorney who has represented death row inmates at the Supreme Court.
Alabama is appealing that decision to the Supreme Court and has been waiting more than year for an answer.
In Oklahoma, Brenda Andrew faces the death penalty for the 2001 shooting death of her estranged husband.
Persons:
Marcellus Williams, Felicia Gayle, Williams, ”, Cliff Sloan, “, dissents, Paul Cassell, Cassell, Richard Glossip, Barry Van Treese, Justin Sneed, Glossip, Sneed, Republican Gentner Drummond, ” Williams, Wesley Bell, Bell, Andrew Bailey, Bailey, Robert Dunham, ” Cassell, Van, ’, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson –, Sotomayor, Kenneth Smith, Smith, ” Smith, Seth Kretzer, Kretzer, Joseph Smith, Brenda Andrew, Andrew, ” CNN’s Devan Cole
Organizations:
CNN, NAACP, Supreme, Georgetown Law, University of Utah, Republican, Glossip, Democrat, Missouri, Court, Eighth, Alabama, Appeals
Locations:
Missouri, Oklahoma, Alabama, Oklahoma City, Louis, Texas