WASHINGTON −More than two decades after the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed, the court will consider how to deal with multiple intelligence tests in ...

WASHINGTON − More than two decades after the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed, the court will consider how to deal with multiple intelligence tests in ...

The Supreme Court will hear a case next term centered on the role of multiple IQ scores in determining an Alabama murderer’s eligibility for the death penalty, according to a list issued by the court ...

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 Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the case of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than two decades. The question before the justices was how the lower courts ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted of a 1997 murder who a lower court found to ...