The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to reinstate the death penalty for Arizona death row inmate Danny Lee Jones in the case Thornell v. Jones, No. 22-882. The decision, written by Justice Samuel Alito, overturned a 9th Circuit ruling that had found Jones received ineffective assistance of counsel during his sentencing for the 1992 murders of a man, his 7-year-old daughter, and her grandmother. All three liberal justices dissented, arguing against the majority's stance on the ineffective counsel claim. This ruling ends Jones's efforts to seek resentencing based on additional mitigating evidence regarding his psychological problems and childhood abuse.