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The Supreme Court's busy docket for its new session includes a challenge to the death penalty for 16 and 17 year olds and a test of federal sentencing guidelines. Justices also will hear arguments on government use of eminent domain. Hear NPR's Nina Totenberg.

The jury has recessed for the weekend without a verdict in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial. The judge questioned the jury briefly before Friday's session after a juror told the judge that another juror had looked up the word "aggravating" at an online dictionary site.

The sentencing phase of the Zacarias Moussaoui trial continues in Virginia on Tuesday. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Moussaoui, the only man charged in the United States for his involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Noah Adams discusses the case with Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema sentences an unrepentant Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Moussaoui's final public words were that Americans would never catch Osama bin Laden.

The court ruled that some crack cocaine offenders sentenced to harsh prison terms more than a decade ago cannot get their sentences reduced under a federal law designed to do just that.

Republicans will unveil the latest version of a coronavirus relief package. Protests continue in Portland, Ore. And, the body of Rep. John Lewis will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

Five years after the collapse of Enron, the energy trading giant, former employees are hoping to receive some measure of justice on Monday, when former top executive Jeffrey Skilling is sentenced in Houston.

A Pennsylvania judge sentenced former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky to between 30 and 60 years in prison for the sexual abuse of young boys. There is virtually no way he could get out of prison before he dies a natural death. Sandusky maintains he is innocent.

Critics have said for years that minorities were being unfairly penalized by tough penalties for crack possession.

Decades of a tough-on-crime approach brought mandatory minimum sentences that many now say are too costly – both in social terms and dollars, as prison…