WESTPORT - A Fairfield woman has been arrested after allegedly physically abusing her disabled client while at the YMCA in town, police say. In a release, the Westport Police Department said Elisa ...

This supported disabled employment agency is about to close, and a community has vowed to fight to keep it open, saying they ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from execution. There was no ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a rare move on Thursday, the Supreme Court spared the life of an "intellectually disabled" death row inmate, dismissing an ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could make it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they are intellectually ...

Court throws out state’s challenge to judicial finding that inmate convicted of murder is ineligible for death penalty ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito appeared ...

Canadian courts have become so soft on the mentally disabled that they can no longer be trusted to protect Canadians.

The state of Alabama has a complicated relationship with science, and its criminal courts are no exception. Often, state prosecutors defend debunked junk science, like bite marks, to keep people in ...

A North Texas man whom experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys had said was intellectually disabled became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982, put to death Thursday evening for ...