Knewz on MSN

Supreme Court justices seem to back execution of man with intellectual disabilities

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito appeared inclined to side with the state of Alabama during ...
SCOTUSblog on MSN

Hamm v. Smith and the future of capital punishment

Capital Matters is a recurring series by Jordan Steiker that covers federal constitutional regulation of the death penalty ...
Education Week

Supreme Court Weighs IQ Tests and Other School Records in Key Death Penalty Case

Seth P. Waxman, Smith’s lawyer, told the justices that the lower federal courts in his client’s case correctly applied Alabama law, which allows judges to consider “evidence of intellectual ...
Jurist

Hamm v. Smith: Supreme Court Revisits the Line Between Intellectual Disability and Execution

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 10, heard oral argument in Hamm vs. Smith, a capital case that could reshape how courts evaluate intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia and its ...
Wellbeing Whisper on MSN

Supreme Court IQ ruling could redefine disability rights nationwide

Can one number determine the destiny of access for millions of Americans with intellectual disabilities? This is what is at ...
Davis Vanguard

Court Affirms Reginald Jackson’s Intellectual Disability, Spares Death Penalty

Reginald Jackson has been ruled intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for the death penalty, upholding a ...
Opinion

Alabama Begs Supreme Court to Make It Easier to Execute People With Intellectual Disabilities

The bizarre oral argument in Hamm v. Smith shows how decades of case law rooted in science is now under siege at the Supreme Court.
University of Wyoming

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

What are intellectual and developmental disabilities? Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which ...