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

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

The Supreme Court is considering an appeal from Alabama that could lower standards for determining intellectual disability in ...

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

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

The arguments and assertions in this case are all over the map and very hard to follow,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson ...

The Supreme Court is taking up an appeal from Alabama, which wants to put to death a man who lower federal courts found is intellectually disabled and shielded from execution.

Death row inmate Joseph Clifton Smith scored high enough on IQ tests to be executed, but his defense contends he is mentally ...