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

Alabama told the Supreme Court on Wednesday the state should be allowed to execute a man federal courts have repeatedly said was intellectually disabled.

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

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 ...

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