The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to let Alabama execute convicted murderer Joseph Smith, whose IQ scores were ...
The justices wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new ...
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Supreme Court weighs IQ scores in death penalty case
Joseph Clifton Smith, convicted of capital murder in Alabama and sentenced to death, has taken five IQ tests as an adult. His ...
The intelligence quotient (IQ) is a standardized measure of cognition, or your ability to think, understand, reason, learn, and remember. By design, the average IQ score is 100. Higher IQ scores are ...
I Q is back in the news with the Supreme Court’s third look at IQ and capital punishment since 2002. On December 10, 2025, ...
The arguments and assertions in this case are all over the map and very hard to follow,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson ...
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Court appears divided on whether lower courts properly found death row inmate to be intellectually disabled
The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the case of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than ...
Death row inmate Joseph Clifton Smith scored high enough on IQ tests to be executed, but his defense contends he is mentally ...
The US Supreme Court will hear Hamm v. Smith on Wednesday, December 10, a death penalty case testing how courts should treat ...
Jul. 10—A psychologist testified Thursday in Morgan County Circuit Court that murder suspect Kendall Rashaid Rucker has a mild intellectual disability, a key factor the court must consider in ...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 10, heard oral argument in Hamm vs. Smith, a capital case that could reshape how ...
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