Is an intellectual disability a condition, or a number on an IQ test? Here's why an Alabama death penalty case at the Supreme ...

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted of a 1997 murder who a lower court found to be intellectually disabled and ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the case of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than two decades. The question before the […] ...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday examined how to determine whether a death row inmate is intellectually disabled and should ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito appeared inclined to side with the state of Alabama during ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from execution.

In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars the execution of people who are intellectually disabled. Next week, on Wednesday ...

Decades ago, the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it weighs the use of IQ tests in close calls.

Seth P. Waxman, Smith’s lawyer, told the justices that the lower federal courts in his client’s case correctly applied Alabama law, which allows judges to consider “evidence of intellectual ...

The photos include a short-sleeve orange button-down, a blue jacket, a red University of Houston T-shirt and white or gray sweatpants. WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over how ...

Justices to consider how to determine if a person is "intellectually disabled." More than 20 years ago, the Supreme Court outlawed the execution of intellectually disabled people convicted of capital ...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 10, heard oral argument in Hamm vs. Smith, a capital case that could reshape how ...