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 state of Alabama disagrees: anyone scoring 70 or above on one test, its attorney general contends, is intelligent enough ...
The Court’s right flank has criticized Atkins from the day it was decided, and that right flank now controls six seats on the ...
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 ...
When Joseph Smith was 27, he was involved in the brutal beating death of a man in Mobile. At the time, he was reading at fourth-grade level. Is it enough to keep him from being executed? The federal ...
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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 ...
A hearing date for a motion regarding a potential intellectual disability and a summer trial date have been set for murder defendant Jeremiah Bean, accused in May 2013 murders in Fernley. These were ...
Marcelle Waldon, who killed Edie Yates Henderson and David Henderson in Lakeland in 2020, will remain eligible for the death penalty as he heads for sentencing.
Despite what President Trump said at a press conference Thursday — "They can be air traffic controllers" — that's not how disability hiring works, says Chai Feldblum, a disability lawyer and former ...
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