High court won't disturb
ban on death row interviews
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The U.S. Supreme Court will not tinker with a federal prison policy that prohibits death row inmates from giving face-to-face interviews to reporters.
The justices on Monday turned down an appeal from David Paul Hammer, an inmate on the federal government's death row in Terre Haute, Indiana. Hammer argued that the policy adopted after Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh appeared on a television progream in March 2000 is an unconstitutional violation of his free speech rights.
Twenty-three news media organizations also urged the court to hear the case.
Hammer's sentence has been thrown out, but he remains housed with other death-row prisoners while the government decides whether to seek to have him re-sentenced to death.
Appeal in murder case
rejected by Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The U.S. Supreme Court is turning down the state of Texas' attempt to get a death sentence reimposed on a convicted killer who lower courts have found is mentally impaired.
The justices rejected the state's appeal Monday in the case of Eric Lynn Moore, one of four men convicted of the December 1990 murder of Helen Ayers during a robbery at her home north of Dallas.
The high court ruled in 2002 that mentally retarded defendants may not be executed. The state disputes that Moore is mentally retarded and also says federal courts should have deferred to state judges who ruled that he could be executed.
Published: Wed, Mar 10, 2010
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