Close Search
Round Separator
Menu Search

Entries tagged with “Cecil Clayton”

Policy Issues

Intellectual Disability

,

New Voices

,

Nov 03, 2015

Missouri Scheduled to Execute Man Despite Evidence of Intellectual Disability

Ernest Johnson (pic­tured) is sched­uled to be exe­cut­ed in Missouri on November 3, despite strong evi­dence that he is intel­lec­tu­al­ly dis­abled and there­fore inel­i­gi­ble for exe­cu­tion. Johnson has shown signs of…

Policy Issues

Arbitrariness

,

Mental Illness

,

United States Supreme Court

,

Mar 26, 2015

States Struggle with Determinations of Competency to Be Executed

A recent arti­cle in Mother Jones exam­ines lin­ger­ing ques­tions in the deter­mi­na­tion of which inmates are exempt from exe­cu­tion because of men­tal incom­pe­ten­cy. In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Ford v. Wainwright that a per­son could no…