Arbitrariness
,Intellectual Disability
,Sentencing Alternatives
,Lethal Injection
,Jun 13, 2020
NEWS (6/11/20) — Florida: The Florida Supreme Court applied new cases that retroactively changed the law regarding claims of intellectual disability and the unconstitutionality of death sentences imposed after non-unanimous jury votes for …
Arbitrariness
,Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,May 27, 2020
For the third time in 2020, the Florida Supreme Court has reduced the constitutional protections afforded to death-row prisoners. In a May 21 decision in Phillips v. State, the court overturned its own case precedent and …
Intellectual Disability
,Oct 21, 2016
The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that death-row prisoners who had unsuccessfully argued that they are ineligible for the death penalty because of intellectual disability must be provided a second chance to prove their claims. O…
Intellectual Disability
,Jun 11, 2021
The Georgia Supreme Court has denied a constitutional challenge to the…
Intellectual Disability
,Race
,Feb 16, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2002 decision in Atkins v. Virginia categorically bars states from executing any person who has Intellectual Disability. (Daryl Atkins is pictured.) However, as reported in recent stories in Pacific Standard M…
Intellectual Disability
,May 19, 2017
No death penalty jury has ever found a defendant charged with intentional murder to be ineligible for the death penalty under Georgia’s intellectual disability law, according to a new empirical study published in Georgia State Uni…
Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,May 27, 2014
On May 27, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Hall v. Florida that Florida’s strict IQ cutoff for determining intellectual disability in capital cases is unconstitutional. The Court concluded, “Florida’s law …
Arbitrariness
,Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,Feb 24, 2014
On March 3, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Hall v. Florida, a case addressing the strict standard for intellectual disability that Florida uses to determine if inmates…
