Entries tagged with “Bobby Joe Long”
Policy Issues
Mental Illness
,United States Supreme Court
,Military
,May 23, 2019
Florida Executes Mentally Ill Vietnam Veteran Diagnosed with “Traumatic Brain Disease”
Florida has executed Bobby Joe Long (pictured), a mentally ill Vietnam veteran with service-related traumatic brain injuries, after the U.S. Supreme Court on May 23, 2019 declined to review his case. Long had asked the Court to halt his execution to address “[w]hether an individual who suffers from severe mental illness is exempt from execution under the Eighth Amendment. In 1980, Long received a diagnosis of “Traumatic Brain Disease” from…