The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on Wednesday in a case that could make it more challenging for convicted murderers to avoid execution by claiming intellectual disability. The case ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A man convicted of murdering a brother and sister in Blount and Sevier counties in 1992 is awaiting a mental evaluation that could take him off of death row ahead of his ...

The prosecution in Marcelle Jerrill Waldon's death-penalty case will be allowed an expert to counter defense claims that Waldon suffers an intellectual disability and is therefore ineligible for a ...

A Florida judge ruled that convicted double murderer Marcelle Waldon remains eligible for the death penalty. The ruling found Waldon did not meet the legal criteria for an intellectual disability, ...

WASHINGTON – Disability rights groups fear a death penalty case before the Supreme Court could have implications for the intellectually disabled far beyond the criminal context. The justices are ...

Byron Black was sentenced to death for three 1998 murders. His attorneys have long argued his intellectual disabilities should bar him from execution. A 2021 state law allows courts to review death ...