Opinion analysis: A new limit on the death penalty

Analysis Twelve years after leaving it to the states to decide when an individual convicted of murder was too intellectually incapacitated to be executed, a divided Supreme Court on Tuesday withdrew some of that discretion.  The states, the five-to-four majority ruled, cannot use a fixed IQ score as the measure of incapacity to be put to death.  … Continue reading Opinion analysis: A new limit on the death penalty