Could Supreme Court make it easier to execute the intellectually disabled?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Roughly one-third of the claims have been successful, according to John Blume, director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project at Cornell Law school.
45% : That's a significant success rate for claims raised by death row inmates, he said.
41% : Convicted murderer's IQ scores varied One hundred and forty-four people have had their death sentences vacated due to intellectual disabilities since 2002, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
40% : About 10% of people on death row have claimed that an intellectual disability bars their execution.
38% : Judges often hear competing testimony from experts about whether a death row inmate has a severe enough intellectual disability to prevent execution, a threshold the high court left up to states to determine.
37% : After the Supreme Court in 2002 said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed, prosecutors largely stopped seeking the death penalty for defendants with clear developmental disabilities.
25% : "Joseph Smith is not intellectually disabled, and the Eighth Amendment does not override the death sentence he earned for murdering Durk Van Dam," Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a written brief.
16% : Whether the high court will now make raising a claim harder is a matter of life or death for Joseph Smith, an Alabama inmate on death row for a brutal murder in 1997. Smith's IQ scores have ranged from 72 to 78.

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