Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Bill to keep intellectually disabled people off death row signed into law

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 ...
New York Post

Appeals court says Alabama can’t execute intellectually disabled inmate

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 Boston Globe

Supreme Court hears Alabama’s appeal to execute a man found to be intellectually disabled

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could make it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they are intellectually ...
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Supreme Court struggles over whether Alabama can execute man found to be intellectually disabled

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from ...
The New York Times

Language Mistake in Georgia Death Penalty Law Creates a Daunting Hurdle

A 2002 Supreme Court decision, Atkins v. Virginia, ruled that the Eighth Amendment forbids putting intellectually disabled people to death. But the Georgia law at issue in the case, unique in the ...