Supreme Court weighs role of IQ scores in debate over execution of disabled people

After ban on execution of "intellectually disabled" people, the Supreme Court is asked to clarify how to decide who qualifies ...
Jurist

Hamm v. Smith: Supreme Court Revisits the Line Between Intellectual Disability and Execution

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 10, heard oral argument in Hamm vs. Smith, a capital case that could reshape how ...

Man arrested in Hardin County for alleged kidnapping with deadly weapon

The incident occurred Oct. 18, when 22-year-old Joseph Smith and three other men are accused of forcing a man into a car at ...

Could Supreme Court make it easier to execute the intellectually disabled?

Decades ago, the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it weighs the use of IQ ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Commentary: Joseph vs. Brigham. Polygamy deniers. Why some insist on rewriting the Mormon past.

In 1694, Puritan minister Cotton Mather mourned that the younger generation of Puritans was uniquely depraved. “Among all the deadly symptoms which threaten us with a speedy ruin,” he wrote, “there is ...