Capital Matters is a recurring series by Jordan Steiker that covers federal constitutional regulation of the death penalty and federal habeas review of state criminal convictions and sentences. At ...

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 ...

Reginald Jackson has been ruled intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for the death penalty, upholding a ...

Decades ago, the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it weighs the use of IQ tests in close calls.

This discovery offers new insights into intellectual disability diagnostics and potential therapeutic avenues. The study reveals the significant impact of tandem repeats - sequences of DNA where a ...

Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are offering up a new estimate of the number of American children with intellectual disability. In a study looking at 8-year-olds in ...

Urea cycle disorders (UCDs) comprise deficiencies in any of the six enzymes and two transport proteins involved in urea biosynthesis. The specific disorders are: n-acetylglutamate synthase deficiency, ...

Involvement of different brain dystrophin isoforms was assessed in 3 groups of young males diagnosed with DMD. On their first assessment, 43 of the 70 patients with DMD had normal intelligence ...

A term often used in both clinical and social settings to denote the capabilities of individuals on the autism spectrum should be consigned to the history books, researchers say. “High functioning ...