The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to let Alabama execute convicted murderer Joseph Smith, whose IQ scores were ...

In a major case from Alabama before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, the justices are asked to clarify who qualifies as ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday examined how to determine whether a person on death row 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 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 ...

STAUNTON – Convicted of online solicitation and bestiality, a Harrisonburg man with a reported IQ of 70 was spared additional time behind bars Tuesday in Staunton Circuit Court. In September 2023, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Update, 4:18 p.m.: The Georgia supreme court has denied Warren Hill’s motion for a ...

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 ...

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

Any degree of atypicality from mild to severe can coexist with any level of intelligence, from genius IQ to profound mental retardation. (If you're new to this blog, go back and read the last couple ...