Of the many insults commonly thrown around the internet and political rhetoric these days, calling someone “low IQ” is, ...

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

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 10, heard oral argument in Hamm vs. Smith, a capital case that could reshape how ...

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

A Supreme Court case on executing offenders with intellectual disabilities could reshape what “cruel and unusual punishment” ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conservative justices asked whether the Supreme Court needs to sharpen its guidance on how courts assess intellectual ...