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

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

In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars the ...

Conservative justices asked whether the Supreme Court needs to sharpen its guidance on how courts assess intellectual ...

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

The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday will consider an Alabama case about how states decide if a death penalty candidate is ...

In Hamm v. Smith, the Supreme Court will consider how IQ tests can be used to determine when an individual with an ...

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

The justices wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new ...

The Supreme Court weighed arguments over how multiple IQ tests should be considered when evaluating whether an inmate should not be executed.

CloudKitchens CTO Brian Atwell said testing for IQ could help the startup "weed out people very early." ...

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