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

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

William Skipworth’s three-part investigation in the New Hampshire Bulletin has laid bare the ongoing traumas experienced by ...

The state of Alabama disagrees: anyone scoring 70 or above on one test, its attorney general contends, is intelligent enough ...

Between 0.7% and 1.5% of people in developed countries are estimated to suffer from intellectual disability (ID). In Spain, this is equivalent to more than 400,000 people. The term intellectual ...

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

The US Supreme Court will hear Hamm v. Smith on Wednesday, December 10, a death penalty case testing how courts should treat ...

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

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