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 appeals court had been “unclear” in a ruling ...

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at the case of a death row inmate in Alabama whom lower courts found has an intellectual disability.

The U.S. Supreme Court threw out on Monday a judicial decision that had spared a man convicted of murder in Alabama from execution because he was found to be intellectually disabled. The justices concluded that the Atlanta-based 11th U.

The Supreme Court vacated a federal appeals court’s decision blocking a death row inmate’s execution because he says he’s intellectually disabled, ordering the lower court to issue a clearer ruling. After sitting on Alabama’s appeal of the decision for months — an unusual move for the court — the justices issued a per curiam

The US Supreme Court ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at how it decided an Alabama man on death row was intellectually disabled and shouldn’t be put to death after reviewing multiple IQ scores.