More than 20 years ago, the Supreme Court outlawed the execution of intellectually disabled people convicted of capital crimes as "cruel and unusual" punishment forbidden by the Eighth Amendment. In a ...

Dec. 10 (UPI) --The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday will consider how states decide if a death penalty candidate is intellectually disabled. At issue is the case against Joseph Clifton Smith of Alabama.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from execution.

In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars the execution of people who are intellectually disabled. Next week, on Wednesday ...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday examined how to determine whether a death row inmate is intellectually disabled and should be spared execution. The top court more than 20 years ago outlawed ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by Alabama officials of a judicial decision that a man convicted of a 1997 murder is intellectually disabled - a finding ...

WASHINGTON(AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from ...