U.S. Supreme Court rules for death-row inmates with low IQ
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
WASHINGTON -- Twelve years after barring execution of the mentally disabled, the Supreme Court on Tuesday prohibited states in borderline cases from relying only on intelligence test scores to determine whether a death row inmate is eligible to be executed.
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