Decades ago, the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it weighs the use of IQ ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty ...
The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted ...
The justices wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new ...
The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results ...
After ban on execution of "intellectually disabled" people, the Supreme Court is asked to clarify how to decide who qualifies ...
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Alabama Begs Supreme Court to Make It Easier to Execute People With Intellectual Disabilities
The bizarre oral argument in Hamm v. Smith shows how decades of case law rooted in science is now under siege at the Supreme Court.
Seth P. Waxman, Smith’s lawyer, told the justices that the lower federal courts in his client’s case correctly applied ...
The Supreme Court is taking up an appeal from Alabama, which wants to put to death a man who lower federal courts found is ...
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that advocates say could have major implications for how ...
A Supreme Court case on executing offenders with intellectual disabilities could reshape what “cruel and unusual punishment” ...
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Supreme Court sends dispute on HIV disability claim back to the lower court and rejects case on defining “reasonable doubt”
The Supreme Court on Monday sent the case of a Louisiana man who was prevented from using a physical therapy clinic’s pool ...
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