Is an intellectual disability a condition, or a number on an IQ test? Here's why an Alabama death penalty case at the Supreme ...

The Supreme Court is considering an appeal from Alabama that could lower standards for determining intellectual disability in ...

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

The Supreme Court is taking up an appeal from Alabama, which wants to put to death a man who lower federal courts found is ...

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

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

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

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

A man who forced a neighbor with a severe intellectual disability to drag a plow like an ox was sentenced to a suspended ...

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

Anti-death penalty and disability advocates have criticized how Georgia handled intellectual disability in death penalty cases, because defendants had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they were ...

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