Disability Scoop

Supreme Court Punts On Deciding How Intellectual Disability Is Defined

Months after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that advocates said could have major implications for ...

Justices Decline to Rule in Death Penalty Case Over Intellectual Disabilities

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

Justices Dismiss Death Penalty IQ Test Case Without Decision (1)

The US Supreme Court won’t rule for now on how state courts should analyze the results of multiple IQ tests when determining ...
The New RepublicOpinion

A Rare Win at the Supreme Court for a Death-Row Prisoner

The Supreme Court took the unusual step on Thursday of dismissing a case that it had already heard, handing a rare win to a ...

US Supreme Court averts inmate's execution in intellectual disability case

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

New methods test IQ in individuals with intellectual disability

Since the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries, intelligence tests have attempted to measure human intellectual capabilities. The most common assigns an intelligence quotient, or IQ, score ...
Commercial Appeal

Pervis Payne could be first to escape execution under new state law. What would it take?

If Pervis Payne is determined to have an intellectual disability, he could be saved from execution. But first he will face a week-long hearing in which experts, his family and others will testify ...