After ban on execution of "intellectually disabled" people, the Supreme Court is asked to clarify how to decide who qualifies ...

The Supreme Court is weighing a case that may make it tougher for convicted murderers to argue for sparing their lives due to ...

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

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted ...

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

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

A combination of missed prevention opportunities and health inequalities can result in the early deaths of people living with ...