The case focused on a convicted murderer’s attempt to argue his intellectual functioning was too low for him to receive the death penalty. The Supreme Court has declined to issue a ruling on the role of IQ scores in overturning death sentences, saying that it was wrong to take up the case in the first place. In a per curiam, or unsigned, opinion on May 21, the Supreme Court said it “improvidently granted” an order to consider the dispute. We had a problem loading this article.