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 ...
WASHINGTON – After the Supreme Court in 2002 said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed, prosecutors largely stopped seeking the death penalty for defendants with clear ...
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 ...
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What was going to happen to their 31-year-old intellectually disabled sister when Caroline could no longer look after her? “I ...
Attorneys for Melvin Trotter had long argued he was intellectually disabled, but he was put to death by lethal injection for a 1986 Palmetto killing.
ANDERSON — Three different doctors testified that Carl Roy Webb Boards II is not intellectually disabled as he awaits trial on a capital murder case. The hearing took place Thursday in Madison Circuit ...
A fundraiser, benefiting adult education, kicked off at Cedar Lake Lodge Saturday morning.Cedar Lake is the largest private provider for adults with intellectual disabilities in Kentucky. In past ...
French sports officials and athletes are pushing to include athletes with intellectual disabilities in the Winter Paralympics ...