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 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by Alabama officials of a judicial decision that a man convicted of a 1997 murder is intellectually disabled - a finding ...
A House bill that would require people convicted in death-penalty cases to submit evidence of an IQ below 75 to claim an intellectual disability defense advanced in a committee last week after ...
The state of Alabama has a complicated relationship with science, and its criminal courts are no exception. Often, state prosecutors defend debunked junk science, like bite marks, to keep people in ...
In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars the execution of people who are intellectually disabled. Next week, on Wednesday ...
A woman renting a home in Dearborn Heights says she feared a rat problem was running rampant, so she called an inspector. Sure enough, the inspector said it was infested. Local 4 found complaints ...