(Source: National Constitution Center) Terrance Williams, who is at the center of two capital punishment controversies, will have one of his cases argued at the United States Supreme Court in the next year, as the Justices accepted an appeal Thursday on Eighth and 14th Amendment grounds. Pennsylvania's Supreme Court Williams wants the Court to settle a dispute in his appeals process that goes back to 2012. At the time, Williams' defense wanted then-Pennsylvania Supreme Court chief justice Ron Castille recused from his appeals case, since Castille had been the Philadelphia district attorney when Williams was...
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