Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anti-death penalty and disability advocates have criticized how Georgia handled intellectual disability in death penalty cases, ...

With the stroke of a pen Tuesday afternoon, Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law a measure aimed at ensuring intellectually disabled people aren’t executed in Georgia. House Bill 123, which passed both ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Georgia House unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday lessening the threshold for a person facing the death penalty to be considered intellectually disabled, which would make them ineligible for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 36-year-old Bucks County man has been arrested and charged with scamming at least 15 intellectually disabled seniors in Philadelphia as he worked as a 'fiscal liaison' for a non-profit service ...