The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty ...

The arguments and assertions in this case are all over the map and very hard to follow,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson ...

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

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.

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

In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars the ...

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

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

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted of a 1997 murder who a lower court found to be intellectually disabled and ...

Borderline intellectual functioning (BIF) isn’t currently a stand-alone diagnosis. Some diagnostic guidelines use it as a descriptive code, while others include it within a broader spectrum of ...