US Supreme Court halts execution of Texas death row inmate ONE hour before he was scheduled to die

The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of a Texas death row inmate one hour before he was scheduled to die Tuesday.  Ruben Gutierrez, 43, had been set to die at 6 p.m. CDT at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville for the 1998 murder of an elderly mobile-home park owner during a robbery.  But he … Read more

Kim Kardashian thanks U.S. Supreme Court for granting convict Ruben Gutierrez a stay of execution

Kim Kardashian thanks the U.S. Supreme Court for granting convict Ruben Gutierrez a stay of execution By Kelby Vera For Dailymail.com Published: 02:50 BST, 17 June 2020 | Updated: 02:50 BST, 17 June 2020 Kim Kardashian is thanking the U.S. Supreme Court for granting convicted murderer Ruben Gutierrez a stay of execution. The reality star-turned-criminal … Read more

‘Evil seems to reign supreme’: Pope Francis urges Christian faithful to ‘fill your hearts with hope’

‘Evil seems to reign supreme’: Pope Francis urges Christian faithful to ‘fill your hearts with hope’ amid anger at death of George Floyd and coronavirus pandemic Pope Francis today delivered a message marking the 4th World Day of the Poor Urged faithful to ‘revive responsibility’ for their neighbour to end world’s crises  He told followers … Read more

Supreme Court blocks Democrats from getting secret parts of Robert Mueller’s investigation

Supreme Court blocks Democrats from getting Robert Mueller’s investigation’s grand jury material for now – and could hear blockbuster case on battle for secrets Supreme Court issues temporary hold on release to Democrats of the grand jury material from the Mueller investigation Gives justices until June 1 to decide on whether they will hold a … Read more

Iran’s supreme leader releases anti-Israel poster

Iran’s supreme leader releases anti-Israel poster evoking the Nazis’ ‘final solution’ anti-Semitic messages during WWII Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sparked outrage after he released an anti-Israel poster Poster showed the destruction of Israel alongside the Nazi’s ‘final solution’ term   U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo slammed the leader’s ‘disgusting’ remarks  By Bhvishya Patel For Mailonline Published: 20:56 … Read more

Mastercard faces Supreme Court over £14bn damages claim

Mastercard faces two days in front of Britain’s highest court to determine whether it potentially owes every adult in the UK a collective £14billion. Former financial ombudsman Walter Merricks is taking the card provider to court, claiming the fees it charged shops between 1992 and 2008, declared unlawful by the European Commission, resulted in consumers … Read more

Gerry Adams wins Supreme Court appeal against convictions

Gerry Adams’ historic convictions for attempting to escape from the Maze Prison in the 1970s have been overturned more than 40 years later after the UK’s highest court today ruled that his detention was unlawful. The Supreme Court agreed the former Sinn Fein leader’s two 1975 convictions were unsafe because his detention was not ‘personally considered’ … Read more

Facebook reveals the first 20 members of its content supreme court

Facebook on Wednesday announced the first members of its independent ‘supreme court’ empowered to make binding decisions about what content should be allowed or removed at the social network and Instagram.  The oversight board is to make final decisions regarding the kinds of posts known to embroil Facebook in controversy about censorship, misinformation or free … Read more

Former Supreme Court judge LORD SUMPTION gives a withering critique of the Government’s lockdown

COVID-19 is not the greatest crisis in our history. It is not even the greatest public health crisis in our history. But the lockdown is without doubt the greatest interference with personal liberty in our history. It is normal at this point to add ‘in peacetime’. But we can forget that. Even in wartime, we … Read more

Arizona supreme court upholds death sentence of man who locked up girl, 10, in plastic box

Murder conviction and death sentence of man who locked a 10-year-old girl in a plastic box as punishment for stealing an ice pop is upheld by Arizona Supreme Court Ame Deal was killed in 2011 after John Michael Allen forced her into a plastic box  The 10-year-old suffocated after being left in the storage box … Read more