Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anti-death penalty and disability advocates have criticized how Georgia handled intellectual disability in death penalty cases, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by Alabama officials of a judicial decision that a man convicted of a 1997 murder is intellectually disabled - a finding ...

Mississippi is scheduled to execute Vietnam veteran and near-octogenarian Richard Jordan on June 25. On May 1, Florida executed former Army Sergeant Jeffrey Hutchinson, a Desert Storm soldier. The use ...

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 ...

House Bill 1107 would require people convicted in death-penalty cases to submit evidence of an IQ below 75 to claim an ...

ATLANTA — The 2025 Georgia Legislative Session has had a variety of bills, some aimed at lighter fare like making corn bread the official state bread, and others on the more serious side, such as ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from execution. There was no ...