Court throws out state’s challenge to judicial finding that inmate convicted of murder is ineligible for death penalty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a rare move on Thursday, the Supreme Court spared the life of an "intellectually disabled" death row inmate, dismissing an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Alabama in its push to execute a 54-year-old Joseph Clifton Smith. (Alabama Department ...

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

Canadian courts have become so soft on the mentally disabled that they can no longer be trusted to protect Canadians.

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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's dismissal, which split the justices in a 5-4 vote, leaves in place an Eleventh Circuit decision finding defendant Joseph Clifton Smith ineligible for the death penalty as ...

Joseph Clifton Smith is shown in this booking photo released by the Alabama Department of Corrections. (Alabama Department of Corrections) (WASHINGTON) — In a rare move on Thursday, the Supreme Court ...