{"id":16498,"date":"2025-12-10T20:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/supreme-court-mulls-intellectual-disability-limits-in-death-penalty-cases\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:20:27","slug":"supreme-court-mulls-intellectual-disability-limits-in-death-penalty-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/supreme-court-mulls-intellectual-disability-limits-in-death-penalty-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court mulls intellectual disability limits in death penalty cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty is on the table in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers to avoid execution if their IQ falls short of certain standards&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5642012-supreme-court-iq-death-penalty\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty is on the table in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers to avoid execution if their IQ falls short of certain standards&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}