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Hamm v Smith
Coverage of Hamm v Smith in the Nexus archive.
- US supreme court dismisses Alabama’s bid to execute intellectually disabled man
The US Supreme Court dismissed Alabama's challenge to a lower court finding that death row inmate Joseph Clifton Smith is intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for execution under the Constitution. The court's single-sentence, unsigned order reversed its earlier decision to hear the state's appeal about the method used to determine Smith's intellectual disability.