Alabama asked the Supreme Court to reverse that decision and, if necessary, reconsider past rulings on how states must evaluate intellectual disabilities to avoid violating the Constitution.

The Texas Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling that state Attorney General Ken Paxton testify in a whistleblower lawsuit at the heart of impeachment charges brought against him in ...

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review whether a convicted murder’s intellectual disability is severe enough that he can’t be executed, directing a lower court to first clarify ...