The Supreme Court is hearing a case on whether Alabama can execute a man lower courts found intellectually disabled, ...

Death row inmate Joseph Clifton Smith, scored high enough on IQ tests to be executed, but his defense contends he is mentally ...

Eye rolls, gestures and interruptions in a "conundrum" of a case about how to measure intellectual disability in death ...

The justices wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new rules for states’ death rows.

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 on Wednesday examined how to determine whether a death row inmate is intellectually disabled and should ...

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results ...

There was no clear outcome following the hearing to determine if IQ should play a role in execution sentences.

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