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Supreme Court weighs IQ scores in death penalty case

Ease of claiming low IQ at center of Supreme Court death penalty case

After the Supreme Court in 2002 said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed, prosecutors largely stopped seeking the death penalty for defendants with clear developmental disabiliti...

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Supreme Court Grapples With Death Penalty Case on Intellectual Disability

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Supreme Court wrestles with death penalty in cases of intellectual disabilities

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Supreme Court mulls intellectual disability limits in death penalty cases

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty is on the table in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers ...

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US Supreme Court wrestles with death row inmate's intellectual disability ruling

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Supreme Court hears Alabama's appeal to execute a man found to be intellectually disabled

DOJ won't seek death penalty against Matthew Farwell

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Federal prosecutors will not seek death penalty against Matthew Farwell

The former Stoughon police officer accused of killing a woman he began sexually abusing when she was a teenager won’t face the death penalty, federal prosecutors revealed in a court filing Tuesday.

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Federal government will not seek death penalty against Matthew Farwell for Birchmore murder

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US will not seek death penalty for Matthew Farwell

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Executions nationally at 15-year high as Ohio’s death penalty remains in limbo

While Ohio has joined a few other states in pausing executions, the number of people put to death nationwide so far this year has already hit a 15-year high.

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States’ death penalty policies are heading in sharply different directions

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to scale them back or end them entirely.

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LA district attorney will not seek death penalty for Johnny Wactor's alleged killer

District Attorney Nathan Hochman reinstated the death penalty as an option for “exceedingly rare cases” earlier this year.

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DeWine’s final act? Ohio governor prepares announcement on death penalty. Will he end it?

DeWine has been consistently reluctant to carry out capital punishment. Might that culminate in historic policy shift before he leaves office, potentially ending Ohio's death penalty through commutati

Death penalty sought for John Walston, suspect in murder of two Pensacola children

The state will seek the death penalty against John Walston, a man accused of cutting the throats of two Pensacola children and burning their bodies.