RJ's mother said his disappearance is deeply out of character. "He doesn't have the capacity to run away, and he knows how ...

Indiana police have issued a Silver Alert for a 16-year-old boy who vanished last week. According to WISH, Robert “RJ” Williams Jr. was last seen on December 17 in Indianapolis. Indianapolis police ...

The Supreme Court is considering an appeal from Alabama that could lower standards for determining intellectual disability in death penalty cases.

Robert Williams Jr., who goes by RJ, was last seen on the afternoon of Dec. 17 in the 1100 block of Broad Ripple Avenue.

The life sentence of a teen farmer involved in the murder of his colleague is set to be quashed. Ethan Webster was 18 when he ...

In the aftermath of the July 1, 2019, Legislative Council (LegCo) riot in Hong Kong, a group of defendants has taken their case to the appeal court, challenging the severity of their sentences. This ...

The bizarre oral argument in Hamm v. Smith shows how decades of case law rooted in science is now under siege at the Supreme Court.

Of the many insults commonly thrown around the internet and political rhetoric these days, calling someone “low IQ” is, ironically, one of ...

Seth P. Waxman, Smith’s lawyer, told the justices that the lower federal courts in his client’s case correctly applied Alabama law, which allows judges to consider “evidence of intellectual ...

William Skipworth’s three-part investigation in the New Hampshire Bulletin has laid bare the ongoing traumas experienced by ...

Australians with a mild intellectual disability should have a time limit placed on claiming NDIS payments to prune ballooning costs that are worsening the national productivity crisis, an economist ...

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.