The prosecution in Marcelle Jerrill Waldon's death-penalty case will be allowed an expert to counter defense claims that Waldon suffers an intellectual disability and is therefore ineligible for a ...

IQ is back in the news with the Supreme Court’s third look at IQ and capital punishment since 2002. On December 10, 2025, the Court will hear arguments in Hamm v. Smith, a case about an Alabama ...

Facing the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, Alabama held firm that an inmate should be put to death despite multiple federal courts ruling he is intellectually disabled. During lengthy ...

WASHINGTON – Disability rights groups fear a death penalty case before the Supreme Court could have implications for the intellectually disabled far beyond the criminal context. The justices are ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a Florida requirement similar to Virginia’s that a person’s IQ be 70 or below in order to be ineligible for the death penalty. “Intellectual disability is ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty is on the table in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that advocates say could have major implications for how intellectual disability is defined. The high court will consider Hamm v. Smith on ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Hamm v. Smith, a death ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from ...