After ban on execution of "intellectually disabled" people, the Supreme Court is asked to clarify how to decide who qualifies ...

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 ...

Attorneys for condemned killer Frank Walls have gone to the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-ditch attempt to prevent his ...

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

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results ...

In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars the ...

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

Anti-death penalty and disability advocates have criticized how Georgia handled intellectual disability in death penalty cases, because defendants had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they were ...

The Georgia House unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday lessening the threshold for a person facing the death penalty to be considered intellectually disabled, which would make them ineligible for a ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — (MAY 14 UPDATE) The Syracuse Police Department announced Wednesday morning that Jackob Barlow has been found safe. Police said Barlow is in good health and has been returned to his ...