US supreme court dismisses Alabama’s bid to execute intellectually disabled man

Court throws out state’s challenge to judicial finding that inmate convicted of murder is ineligible for death penalty The US supreme court on Thursday threw out a challenge by the state of Alabama to a judicial finding that a death row inmate convicted of a 1997 murder is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible under the US constitution for the death penalty. In this highly unusual move, and in a single-sentence, unsigned order, the court dismissed Alabama’s petition for review in Hamm v...

By Lucy Campbell

Divided Supreme Court decision bars Alabama from executing an inmate who may be intellectually disabled - CNN

Divided Supreme Court decision bars Alabama from executing an inmate who may be intellectually disabled  CNN

Supreme Court blocks state from executing inmate with borderline intellectual disability

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

By Mark Sherman