CLAREMORE -- A psychologist testifying for the defense said Friday that double-murderer Karl Lee Myers meets Oklahoma's legal definition of mental retardation. "I don't have any doubt that he is ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that states are barred from executing anyone convicted of a capital crime who is mentally retarded. The high court ruled that executing retarded ...

_Related limitations in two or more of the following applicable adaptive skill areas: communication, self-care, home living, social skills, community use, self-direction, health and safety, functional ...

Two convicted murderers on death row in Louisiana deserve new hearings to determine whether they are mentally retarded and therefore must be spared from lethal injection, a unanimous state Supreme ...

Five years after the U.S. Supreme Court banned the execution of mentally retarded killers, 16 death row inmates from Harris County are still waiting to have their appeals on the issue resolved. "This ...

A case before the Supreme Court questions how states may determine whether a capital defendant is intellectually disabled and thus cannot be... Texas Death Case Tests Standards For Defining ...

AUSTIN -- Convicted capital murderers determined by a jury to be mentally retarded would be spared the death penalty under a bill passed by a House committee. House Bill 614 by Rep. Terry Keel, ...