Disability rights advocates have warned that a Supreme Court case involving death row inmates could have serious consequences ...

Capital Matters is a recurring series by Jordan Steiker that covers federal constitutional regulation of the death penalty ...

The following information was released by the Independent Institute:. Americans who could have productive work lives instead sit at home sucking from another federal welfare system. A recent job ...

Is an intellectual disability a condition, or a number on an IQ test? Here's why an Alabama death penalty case at the Supreme ...

The era of Trump has opened numerous pathways for decades-long judicial precedents and progress to be stripped away from America’s most vulnerable and unjustly treated citizens. In just the past five ...

The Supreme Court is considering an appeal from Alabama that could lower standards for determining intellectual disability in death penalty cases. The era of Trump has opened numerous pathways for ...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 10, heard oral argument in Hamm vs. Smith, a capital case that could reshape how courts evaluate intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia and its ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday examined whether Alabama can proceed with the execution of Joseph Clifton Smith, an inmate deemed intellectually disabled by lower courts. This legal battle focuses ...

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 execution.There was no ...

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 ...