A divided Supreme Court has dismissed Alabama’s bid to be allowed to execute a convicted murderer who was found by lower ...

Court throws out state’s challenge to judicial finding that inmate convicted of murder is ineligible for death penalty ...

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - A man convicted of a 1997 murder in Alabama will be spared execution after the ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday let stand an appeals court decision that barred Alabama from executing a man that lower courts ...

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 ...

An Alabama man challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q.

On Thursday, the US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to dismiss the Hamm v. Smith case, effectively upholding its rulings that people ...

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, ...

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 ...