Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON – After the Supreme Court in 2002 said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed, prosecutors largely ...

The US Supreme Court will hear Hamm v. Smith on Wednesday, December 10, a death penalty case testing how courts should treat multiple IQ scores when deciding whether a death-row prisoner is ...

A Floridian with an IQ as high as 75 can be diagnosed as mentally disabled and be eligible for help getting a job. But on death row, the state says having an IQ higher than 70 categorically means an ...

The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday that it will consider Alabama's bid to reinstate the death penalty for a convicted murderer that lower courts found to be intellectually disabled. Taking up the ...

WASHINGTON – After the Supreme Court in 2002 said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed, prosecutors largely stopped seeking the death penalty for defendants with clear ...