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

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

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

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

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday refused to halt next week’s scheduled execution of Frank Walls, rejecting argument ...

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

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

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.

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

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