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 ...

A federal appeals court said Alabama can't execute Joseph Clifton Smith, 52, a man with an IQ in the 70s, as the court ruled that he is intellectually disabled and that his death sentence is ...

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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito appeared to side with the state of Alabama during the ...

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 ...

A 2002 Supreme Court decision, Atkins v. Virginia, ruled that the Eighth Amendment forbids putting intellectually disabled people to death. But the Georgia law at issue in the case, unique in the ...

Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black is intellectually disabled under the definitions of a new state law and his death sentence should be commuted to life in prison, District Attorney Glenn Funk ...