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

The justices voted 5-4 to dismiss Alabama's appeal.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a rare move on Thursday, the Supreme Court spared the life of an "intellectually disabled" death row inmate, dismissing an ...

The 55-year-old man at the center of the case, who has been on death row for more than 2 decades, has IQ scores ranging from 72 to 78.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could make it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they are intellectually disabled.

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted of a 1997 murder who a lower court found to ...

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 ...