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

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

The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the case of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than ...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday examined how to determine whether a death row inmate is intellectually disabled and should ...

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

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

The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday will consider an Alabama case about how states decide if a death penalty candidate is ...

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

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

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