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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 justices was how the lower courts ...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 10, heard oral argument in Hamm vs. Smith, a capital case that could reshape how courts evaluate intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia and its ...

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.

The bizarre oral argument in Hamm v. Smith shows how decades of case law rooted in science is now under siege at the Supreme Court.

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