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 ...

A federal appeals court said Alabama can't execute Joseph Clifton Smith, 52, a man with an IQ in the 70s, as the court ruled that he is intellectually disabled and that his death sentence is ...

The Georgia House unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday lessening the threshold for a person facing the death penalty to be considered intellectually disabled, which would make them ineligible for a ...

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 ...

The Georgia Senate passed a bill on Monday easing the state's strict burden of proof required for a death row inmate to be deemed intellectually disabled, which would make them ineligible for a death ...

The nation’s highest court weighed in on an Alabama Death Row inmate’s case on Monday, asking the appeals court to again rule on the IQ scores of Joseph Clifton Smith. The U.S. Supreme Court said the ...

Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black is intellectually disabled under the definitions of a new state law and his death sentence should be commuted to life in prison, District Attorney Glenn Funk ...

This undated photo shows the death chamber at the Georgia Diagnostic Prison in Jackson, Ga. Photo by Georgia Department of Corrections/Getty Images Nearly four decades ago, public outrage over the ...

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