Entries tagged with “Joe Nixon”
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Intellectual Disability
,Race
,United States Supreme Court
,Jun 22, 2022
On 20th Anniversary of Atkins v. Virginia, Supreme Court Denies Petition to Review Procedural Loophole Permitting Execution of Intellectually Disabled Prisoners
On the twentieth anniversary of its landmark decision in Atkins v. Virginia prohibiting the use of the death penalty against individuals with intellectual disability, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a Florida case that creates a procedural loophole that allows those executions to…