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

Experts suggest keeping at least six months’ worth of living expenses in a separate account, to be used strictly for ...

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

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty ...

Like many states, Alabama considers evidence of IQ test scores of 70 or below as part of the standard for determining ...

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.

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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 28.7% of U.S. adults have a disability, but on these ...

Decades ago, the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it weighs the use of IQ ...

Under a 2002 Supreme Court precedent, executing an intellectually disabled person violates the U.S. Constitution's Eighth ...

Elite U.S. universities are supposed to educate the best and brightest. But, if smart, ambitious young people know how to do ...

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