Anti-death penalty and disability advocates have criticized how Georgia handled intellectual disability in death penalty cases, because defendants had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they were ...

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Alabama’s Attorney General’s Office in its push to execute an intellectually disabled man, according to an order released early on Friday. Joseph Clifton ...

A bill aimed at keeping intellectually disabled people off Georgia’s death row is headed to the governor’s desk after passing the state Senate on Monday. Supporters of House Bill 123 say the measure ...

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reginald Jackson has been ruled intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for the death penalty, upholding a constitutional bar on capital punishment in such cases.

A bill that got unanimous support and a standing ovation in the Georgia House this week looks to make it easier for intellectually disabled people to avoid the death penalty, bringing the Peach State ...

The Georgia House unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday lessening the threshold for a person facing the death penalty to be considered intellectually disabled, which would make them ineligible for a ...

The Georgia Senate passed a bill on Monday easing the state's strict burden of proof required for a death row inmate to be deemed intellectually disabled, which would make them ineligible for a death ...