Reginald Jackson has been ruled intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for the death penalty, upholding a ...
The Supreme Court is considering an appeal from Alabama that could lower standards for determining intellectual disability in ...
WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - 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 ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty is on the table in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers ...
The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington The ...
For half a century, the U.S. has been achieving one of the most important civil rights victories most Americans have never heard of: closing the large institutions that once warehoused people with ...
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that advocates say could have major implications for how intellectual disability is defined. The high court will consider Hamm v. Smith on ...