In a landmark legal case, two intellectually disabled men took on their employers and the government and secured a legal victory that could affect more than 20,000 other workers with disabilities ...

There is currently a very poor understanding of cancer prevention among people with intellectual disabilities. Among the intellectually disabled population, many cancer diagnoses are symptomatic ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could make it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they are intellectually disabled. The justices ...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 10, heard oral argument in Hamm vs. Smith, a capital case that could reshape how courts evaluate intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia and its ...

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 ...

Attorneys for a federal death row inmate who was convicted of molesting and killing his two-year-old daughter have filed a motion arguing he should be spared execution due to intellectual disability.

The FBI is looking into the death of an intellectually disabled inmate at a Virginia prison who's been identified as “a possible victim of a crime,” the agency said in a document reviewed Monday by ...

FILE - The Supreme Court facade is seen in Washington, Nov. 4, 2020. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted ...