The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday once again found itself weighing the impact of intelligence testing and family and school influences on whether a state may execute a criminal defendant who is close ...

Intellectual disability is a disorder marked by below-average intellectual function and a lack of skills necessary for independent daily living. The condition begins in the developmental period. The ...

CANTON – A man at the center of South Dakota's most high-profile pending death penalty case is now fighting to take the death penalty off the table in his trial, based on whether he is deemed to have ...

Intellectual disability is a disorder marked by below-average intellectual function and a lack of skills necessary for independent daily living. The condition begins in the developmental period. The ...

SACRAMENTO — More people convicted of murder may receive death penalty exemptions under a measure California lawmakers approved Friday that would expand whom the courts can classify as intellectually ...

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This piece originally appeared at Salon. Bobby James Moore has a lifelong intellectual disability, yet he sits on Texas’s death row because the courts there used John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” to ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court tightened its rules on capital punishment again Tuesday, ruling that Texas — the nation's leader in executions — cannot use a decades-old definition of intellectual ...