WASHINGTON (TEXAS TRIBUNE) — The U.S. Supreme Court appeared fairly split among party lines during oral arguments Tuesday in a Texas case involving how to define intellectual disability among death ...

How should states decide if someone convicted of a crime has an intellectual disability, when the answer means life or death? This spring the Supreme Court will wade back into these murky waters, 12 ...

This piece originally appeared at Salon. Bobby James Moore has a lifelong intellectual disability, yet he sits on Texas’s death row because the courts there used John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” to ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday once again found itself weighing the impact of intelligence testing and family and school influences on whether a state may execute a criminal defendant who is close ...

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