After ban on execution of "intellectually disabled" people, the Supreme Court is asked to clarify how to decide who qualifies ...
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US Supreme Court examines role of IQ tests in death penalty cases
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday examined how to determine whether a death row inmate is intellectually disabled and should ...
Death row inmate Joseph Clifton Smith scored high enough on IQ tests to be executed, but his defense contends he is mentally ...
Seth P. Waxman, Smith’s lawyer, told the justices that the lower federal courts in his client’s case correctly applied ...
The justices wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new ...
The US Supreme Court will hear Hamm v. Smith on Wednesday, December 10, a death penalty case testing how courts should treat multiple IQ scores when deciding whether a death-row prisoner is ...
In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars the execution of people who are intellectually disabled. Next week, on Wednesday ...
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to let Alabama execute convicted murderer Joseph Smith, whose IQ scores were ...
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