Supreme Court rejects request to take up death penalty challenge

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a request to consider a case challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty.

The case, Hidalgo v. Arizona, questions the constitutionality of Arizona’s capital sentencing scheme, as well as the constitutionality of the death penalty under the Eighth Amendment. The justices said Monday the court would not consider the case, with Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan “respecting the denial of certiorari.”