Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a rare move on Thursday, the Supreme Court spared the life of an "intellectually disabled" death row inmate, dismissing an ...

A divided US Supreme Court has dismissed Alabama's bid to execute a convicted murderer, Joseph Clifton Smith, who lower courts had found to be intellectually disabled. Smith beat his victim, Durk Van ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Alabama in its push to execute a 54-year-old Joseph Clifton Smith. (Alabama Department ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could make it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they are intellectually disabled.

The court's action means Victor Saldaño is likely to be executed even though both defense and state experts determined he was ...

After prosecuting Saldaño's murder case, Texas officials joined the man's bid to remand the case to a trial court to fully weigh his intellectual disability argument.

The Karnataka High Court judgment last week was the latest instance of courts’ intervention in decisions that often involve ...

With the stroke of a pen Tuesday afternoon, Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law a measure aimed at ensuring intellectually disabled people aren’t executed in Georgia. House Bill 123, which passed both ...