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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...