Entries tagged with “Charles Brownlow”
Policy Issues
Intellectual Disability
,Representation
,Federal Death Penalty
,Jan 25, 2021
Capital Case Roundup — Death Penalty Court Decisions the Week of January 18, 2021
NEWS (1/22/21) — Texas: The Kaufman County District Attorney’s office has conceded that Texas death-row prisoner Charles Brownlow is intellectually disabled and cannot be resentenced to death. The county prosecutors’ decision comes after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed Brownlow’s death sentence, saying that the state courts had previously rejected his claim of intellectual disability using a definition of the disorder that the U.S. Supreme Court later struck down…