Entries tagged with “David Keen”
Policy Issues
Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,Jul 08, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Review Three Cases on Scope of Protections Against Executing the Intellectually Disabled
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to step in to resolve festering disputes about the scope of the protections its prior rulings afford to intellectually disabled death-row prisoners. On July 2, 2020, the Court denied petitions to review three such cases, allowing death sentences in Alabama and Tennessee to stand despite the application of unconstitutionally restrictive standards in assessing a prisoner’s intellectual disability, while…