WASHINGTON, May 27 (UPI) --Justice Anthony Kennedy called intellectual disability "a condition, not a number" Tuesday as the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 70 IQ as the cutoff for executions. The ...

A Floridian with an IQ as high as 75 may be diagnosed as mentally disabled and be eligible for help getting a job. But on death row, the state says having an IQ higher than 70 categorically means an ...

TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) - Siding with a Death Row inmate convicted of killing a pregnant woman in 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Florida's use of a "rigid" IQ score in determining ...

Washington DC - The Supreme Court on Wednesday examined how to determine whether a person on death row is intellectually disabled and should be spared execution. The top court more than 20 years ago ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - By focusing exclusively on a defendant's IQ score, Florida "creates an unacceptable risk that persons with intellectual disability will be executed," the U.S. Supreme Court ruled ...

IQ tests are intrinsically imprecise. On one, Freddie Lee Hall scored 71. On other tests, he's gotten various scores between 60 and 75. The problem for Mr. Hall is that until today, scoring over 70 on ...

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Any degree of atypicality from mild to severe can coexist with any level of intelligence, from genius IQ to profound mental retardation. (If you're new to this blog, go back and read the last couple ...