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 ...

The Georgia Senate passed a bill on Monday easing the state's strict burden of proof required for a death row inmate to be deemed intellectually disabled, which would make them ineligible for a death ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anti-death penalty and disability advocates have criticized how Georgia handled intellectual disability in death penalty cases, ...

WASHINGTON Most Americans with intellectual or developmental disabilities remain shut out of the workforce, despite changing attitudes and billions spent on government programs to help them. Even when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The owner and an employee of a Vineland group home for intellectually disabled people are the most recent people charged with ...

The state of Alabama has a complicated relationship with science, and its criminal courts are no exception. Often, state prosecutors defend debunked junk science, like bite marks, to keep people in ...

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 execution. There was no ...

Georgia makes it harder than any other state for an individual to prove they are legally exempt from the death penalty because of an intellectual disability. A bill that would change that is on track ...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania will not share disability data with the federal government under an executive order signed ...

ATLANTA — 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 ...

The owner and an employee of a Vineland group home for intellectually disabled people are the most recent people charged with neglecting and abusing an elderly resident, investigators announced Monday ...