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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

A 36-year-old Bucks County man has been arrested and charged with scamming at least 15 intellectually disabled seniors in Philadelphia as he worked as a 'fiscal liaison' for a non-profit service ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — (MAY 14 UPDATE) The Syracuse Police Department announced Wednesday morning that Jackob Barlow has been found safe. Police said Barlow is in good health and has been returned to his ...