U.S. health care seemed stuck in the waiting room for part of the year, holding out for its future prognosis from courtroom and political decisions.
Politics, courts involved in U.S. health care’s 2016 diagnosis
Supreme Court examines mental ability standards for death penalty
In the second death penalty case before the Supreme Court this term, the justices were asked to consider if the state of Texas used accurate standards to measure intellectual ability to determine if a person can be executed.
Death penalty limbo: Supreme Court, states give laws another look
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The death penalty in the United States is repeatedly getting hit by the pause button — which doesn’t mean it is going away […]
Supreme Court rules Florida’s death penalty system unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court Jan. 12 said the state of Florida’s death penalty system is unconstitutional because it allows judges, rather than juries, […]