Seth P. Waxman, Smith’s lawyer, told the justices that the lower federal courts in his client’s case correctly applied ...

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 ...

After ban on execution of "intellectually disabled" people, the Supreme Court is asked to clarify how to decide who qualifies ...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday examined how to determine whether a death row inmate is intellectually disabled and should ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday examined how to determine whether a person on death row is intellectually disabled and should ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to let Alabama execute convicted murderer Joseph Smith, whose IQ scores were ...

Decades ago, the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it weighs the use of IQ ...

Gavin Newsom has torn into Donald Trump for suggesting it takes almost superhuman intelligence to operate a basic piece of gardening equipment.

The US Supreme Court will hear Hamm v. Smith on Wednesday, December 10, a death penalty case testing how courts should treat multiple IQ scores when deciding whether a death-row prisoner is ...

If you were relatively average as a child, fear not - as the majority of elite performers hit their peak in later life, a ...