The Supreme Court outlawed the execution of intellectually disabled individuals in a landmark 2002 ruling

The 55-year-old man at the center of the case, who has been on death row for more than 2 decades, has IQ scores ranging from 72 to 78.

The Supreme Court on Thursday let stand an appeals court decision that barred Alabama from executing a man that lower courts found is likely intellectually disabled.

A divided Supreme Court has dismissed Alabama’s bid to be allowed to execute a convicted murderer who was found by lower courts to be intellectually disabled

The Supreme Court outlawed the execution of intellectually disabled individuals in a landmark 2002 ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday dismissed an appeal from Alabama in a death row case by declining to look at how IQ scores affect capital cases.

The Supreme Court dismissed a case over how to weigh multiple IQ scores when determining if an inmate may be executed by the state.

The Court’s Republicans appear much more divided on the death penalty than some of their previous cases suggested.