WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed a lower court to reconsider whether an Oklahoma woman on death row for the murder of her husband got a fair trial after prosecutors used her ...

The court instructed an appeals court to reconsider whether lurid evidence tainted the trial of Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington ...

Andrew’s lawyers argued that the above and other evidence was so prejudicial that it violated her rights. But a federal appeals court rejected the claim because it thought that Supreme Court ...