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The attorney general said the decision to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of murdering an insurance executive, was in keeping with an executive order by President Trump.
The Saudi prisoner agreed to the settlement to avoid a death-penalty trial, his lawyer said, but it has yet to reach the defense secretary.
Both sides had told the justices that long-suppressed evidence had undermined the case against the inmate, Richard Glossip.
The justices heard arguments in the case of a man on death row in Texas who claims DNA testing could spare his life.
Justice Department lawyers are defending the defense secretary’s decision to back out of the agreement that avoided a death penalty trial, moving the question from military to civilian courts.
The men said that, by reducing their sentences to life in prison, President Biden’s act of clemency could hurt their appeals.