Anti-death penalty and disability advocates have criticized how Georgia handled intellectual disability in death penalty cases, because defendants had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they were ...

This undated photo shows the death chamber at the Georgia Diagnostic Prison in Jackson, Ga. Photo by Georgia Department of Corrections/Getty Images Nearly four decades ago, public outrage over the ...

The Georgia House unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday lessening the threshold for a person facing the death penalty to be considered intellectually disabled, which would make them ineligible for a ...

ATLANTA — With the stroke of a pen Tuesday afternoon, Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law a measure aimed at ensuring intellectually disabled people aren’t executed in Georgia. House Bill 123, which ...

House Bill 123 lowers the burden of proof for intellectual disability claims in capital cases from "beyond a reasonable doubt" to "a preponderance of the evidence," aligning Georgia with other states.

Settlement discussions for a 2018 class-action lawsuit filed against the Georgia Department of Corrections and the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles were held on May 8, marking an effort to resolve ...

ATLANTA — Applying for disability benefits in Georgia? Be prepared to wait. The latest data shows processing claims takes an average of eleven months as a backlog of paperwork persists. Social ...

New Disabled South is distributing funds to help disabled individuals in Alabama and other Southern states as SNAP benefits are set to end next month.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia makes it harder than any other state for an individual to prove they are legally exempt from the death penalty because of an intellectual disability. A bill that would change ...

At the time, Georgia was the first state with the death penalty to ban the execution of intellectually disabled defendants — and the state’s 1988 law passed well ahead of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling ...