Divided Supreme Court Overturns State Death Row Conviction@@!#

the case and that the conviction should have remained intact. Gorsuch wrote in the dissenting opinion, “Today, the Court looks past those constraints, and its own admonitions, to issue a judgment that AEDPA precludes. Respectfully, I dissent.”

The case centers on a brutal 2004 robbery-murder at a grocery store in Grenada, Miss. Pitchford, then 18, and continue reading …