The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday once again found itself weighing the impact of intelligence testing and family and school influences on whether a state may execute a criminal defendant who is close ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that advocates say could have major implications for how ...

Disability advocates are speaking out as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to take on a case that hinges on whether a diagnosis of intellectual disability should be based on more than an IQ score. The ...

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

CANTON – A man at the center of South Dakota's most high-profile pending death penalty case is now fighting to take the death penalty off the table in his trial, based on whether he is deemed to have ...

More than two decades ago, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision prohibiting the execution of people with ...

The state of Alabama disagrees: anyone scoring 70 or above on one test, its attorney general contends, is intelligent enough ...

The US Supreme Court will hear Hamm v. Smith on Wednesday, December 10, a death penalty case testing how courts should treat ...

William Skipworth’s three-part investigation in the New Hampshire Bulletin has laid bare the ongoing traumas experienced by ...

The major news out of Moore v. Texas, the Supreme Court’s death-penalty decision announced Tuesday, is that all eight of the current justices rejected a crude list of “factors” the Texas courts had ...

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This article provides context for library services for individuals with intellectual disability (ID) and then provides a case study and preliminary data on new efforts in the field for public ...