Intellectual Disability
,Methods of Execution
,Jan 10, 2022
An Alabama federal judge has issued an order halting the scheduled January 27, 2022 execution of Matthew Reeves (pictured). On January 7, Judge R. Austin Huffaker of the U.S. District Court for the Middl…
Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,Methods of Execution
,Jan 28, 2022
A divided U.S. Supreme Court voted 5 – 4 on January 27, 2022 to allow Alabama to execute an intellectually disabled death-row prisoner, vacating an injunction issued by a federal district court on January 7 and unanimously upheld by a panel of the U…
Intellectual Disability
,Representation
,United States Supreme Court
,Jul 16, 2021
In a ruling rendered along partisan lines without benefit of oral argument, the United States Supreme Court has overturned the decision of a federal appeals court that had vacated the death sentence imposed on an Alabama
Arbitrariness
,Intellectual Disability
,Race
,United States Supreme Court
,Jun 22, 2022
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 c…
