The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed Alabama's challenge to a ruling that death row inmate Joseph Clifton Smith is intellectually disabled and ineligible for execution.
The justices declared the case "improvidently granted," undoing their earlier decision to hear it. Smith was convicted of murdering Durk Van Dam in 1997.
Alabama argued that courts should not consider multiple IQ scores holistically, but the Supreme Court let stand the lower court's finding of intellectual disability.
