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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito appeared to side with the state of Alabama during the execution case of Joseph Clifton Smith on Wednesday. The Supreme Court heard two ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could make it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they are intellectually ...

The Supreme Court vacated a federal appeals court’s decision blocking a death row inmate’s execution because he says he’s intellectually disabled, ordering the lower court to issue a clearer ruling.

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 Georgia Senate passed a bill on Monday easing the state's strict burden of proof required for a death row inmate to be deemed intellectually disabled, which would make them ineligible for a death ...

A bill that got unanimous support and a standing ovation in the Georgia House this week looks to make it easier for intellectually disabled people to avoid the death penalty, bringing the Peach State ...

July 9, 2026: A memorial grows at the location in east Houston where Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent. Read full article: Investigation into Polk County mother’s suspicious ...