The Supreme Court on Thursday let stand an appeals court decision that barred Alabama from executing a man that lower courts found is likely intellectually disabled.

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 ...

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - A man convicted of a 1997 murder in Alabama will be spared execution after the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday kept in place a judicial finding that the ...

An Alabama man challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests.

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 ...

Joseph Clifton Smith is shown in this booking photo released by the Alabama Department of Corrections. (Alabama Department of Corrections) (WASHINGTON) — In a rare move on Thursday, the Supreme Court ...

A man and woman have been arrested after their intellectually challenged daughter got pregnant and gave birth to her brother's baby. The parents, from Oklahoma, have been charged with failing to ...