The Roark decision represented “a landmark opinion,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Supreme Court said this week. Mr. Roberson’s execution was halted in an unexpected and unorthodox way.

Earlier Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt the execution, although Justice Sonia Sotomayor — in a 10-page statement about the case — urged Abbott to grant a 30-day delay.

AUSTIN – Robert Roberson, the Texas man whose execution was halted by the state Supreme Court, is expected to testify before a legislative panel on Monday. Roberson was set to become the first ...

Greg Abbott. But neither stepped in. The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued a separate order declining to stay the execution. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a statement along with the court’s ...

A Texas judge granted a temporary injunction delaying the execution of a death row inmate ... Alito Jr., Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a lengthy statement explaining that the high court did ...

In a statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision not to intervene, Justice Sonia Sotomayor emphasized that “[f]ew cases more urgently call for” a stay of execution “than one where the accused has ...

Meanwhile, the U.S Supreme Court Thursday evening also denied a request to stay the execution, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor writing in her ruling that the "Supreme Court is powerless to act ...

More than 30 million copies of Nevermind have been sold worldwide A judge in California has dismissed a lawsuit against Nirvana made by Spencer Elden, who appeared as a naked baby on the cover of ...

Nevermind is one of the best-selling albums of all time A US judge has dismissed a man's latest lawsuit against Nirvana over the band's iconic 1991 album cover which showed him naked as a baby ...

Sonia Livingstone DPhil (Oxon), OBE, FBA, FBPS, FAcSS, FRSA, is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Taking a comparative, ...

Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic (holding bottle of beer), posed, group shot. Nirvana's Nevermind is still selling incredibly well, decades after it was released, and it's a hit once more ...

Earlier Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt the execution, although Justice Sonia Sotomayor — in a 10-page ...