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 ...

A Riverside County judge on Monday upheld the death sentence of Horace Edwards Kelly in the first case tried under a recent California Supreme Court ruling that allows mentally retarded inmates to ...

_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 ...

YORKTOWN, VA. — Five years after the Supreme Court declared in Atkins vs. Virginia that the death penalty was unconstitutional for those who are mentally retarded, Daryl Atkins still sits on death row ...