(NewsNation) — The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday about the role of multiple IQ test scores in determining whether a prisoner is intellectually disabled and, potentially, barred ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whether a death row inmate could have purposely skewed his IQ results lower in an effort to escape the death chamber was a ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the case of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than two decades. The question before the justices was how the lower courts ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a death penalty case in which the defendant’s school records from more than 40 years ago are playing a key role. In that case, Justice John Paul ...

The state of Alabama has a complicated relationship with science, and its criminal courts are no exception. Often, state prosecutors defend debunked junk science, like bite marks, to keep people in ...

The Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with how courts consider multiple intelligence quotient tests when evaluating if a person is sufficiently intellectually disabled to be disqualified from the ...