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 ...

Alabama told the Supreme Court on Wednesday the state should be allowed to execute a man federal courts have repeatedly said was intellectually disabled.

Eye rolls, gestures and interruptions in a "conundrum" of a case about how to measure intellectual disability in death ...

The justices seemed to reject Justice Neil Gorsuch’s earlier call for major changes to the rules governing punishment.

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

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to let Alabama execute convicted murderer Joseph Smith, whose IQ scores were ...

Our tinkering causes more harm than it does good,” Justice Sotomayor said of the court's interference over the past 20 years.

On Dec. 10, 1778, John Jay was elected president of the Continental Congress. He later became the Supreme Court’s first chief ...

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

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty ...