Attorneys for condemned killer Frank Walls have asked the Florida Supreme Court to halt his scheduled execution, arguing he ...

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

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that advocates say could have major implications for how ...

The state of Alabama disagrees: anyone scoring 70 or above on one test, its attorney general contends, is intelligent enough ...

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 ...

This undated photo shows the death chamber at the Georgia Diagnostic Prison in Jackson, Ga. Photo by Georgia Department of Corrections/Getty Images Nearly four decades ago, public outrage over the ...

A Texas foster mom has been arrested after a mentally disabled young woman was found locked in a dog kennel in her backyard ...

The Georgia Senate passed a bill on Monday easing the state's strict burden of proof required for a death row inmate to be deemed intellectually disabled, which would make them ineligible for a death ...

Between 0.7% and 1.5% of people in developed countries are estimated to suffer from intellectual disability (ID). In Spain, ...

Once a common schoolyard insult, the R-word had largely vanished from mainstream speech until recently. Donald Trump has helped its resurgence.

The owner and an employee of a Vineland group home for intellectually disabled people are the most recent people charged with neglecting and abusing an elderly resident, investigators announced Monday ...

At the time, Georgia was the first state with the death penalty to ban the execution of intellectually disabled defendants — and the state’s 1988 law passed well ahead of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling ...