The justices wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new ...

Justices to consider how to determine if a person is "intellectually disabled." ...

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

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to ...

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, […] The post ...

The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday will consider an Alabama case about how states decide if a death penalty candidate is ...

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 post Court appears divided on ...

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

The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are ...

There was no clear outcome following the hearing to determine if IQ should play a role in execution sentences.

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

Seth P. Waxman, Smith’s lawyer, told the justices that the lower federal courts in his client’s case correctly applied ...