Innocence
,Intellectual Disability
,Sep 21, 2020
NEWS (9/17/20) — Florida: The Florida Supreme Court has denied post-conviction relief to Ken Lott, retroactiv…
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
,United States Supreme Court
,New Voices
,Nov 23, 2016
Timothy Shriver (pictured), the Chairman of the Special Olympics, has called on the U.S. Supreme Court to end Texas’ “use of stigmatizing stereotypes” in determining whether a defendant has Intellectual Disability…
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
,Oct 19, 2017
The United States Supreme Court has ordered the Florida Supreme Court to reconsider a decision that had denied a death-row prisoner’s claim that he was ineligible for the death penalty because he has Intellectual …
Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,Mar 28, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously struck down Texas’ standard for evaluating intellectual disability in death penalty cases, calling the state’s approach an “outlier” that, “[b]y design and in operation, … create[s] an unacceptable risk tha…
Intellectual Disability
,Foreign Nationals
,Oct 02, 2020
For second time in eight days, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) has reversed course after initially rejecting a death-row prisoner’s claim of intellectual disability and has resentenced the prisoner to life. The decision…
Intellectual Disability
,Executions Overview
,Aug 29, 2017
A Texas appeals court has stayed the August 30 execution of Steven Long (pictured) to provide him an opportunity to litigate a …
Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,Feb 20, 2019
Overturning the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for the second time, the United States Supreme Court ruled on February 19, 2019, that Texas death-row prisoner Bobby James Moore is intellectually d…
Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,Nov 30, 2016
During argument November 29 in the case of Moore v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court expressed skepticism about Texas’ idiosyncratic method of deciding…
Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,Jun 07, 2018
In a ruling three dissenters criticized as an “outlier,” and after having been rebuked by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2017 for ignoring the medical consensus defining intellectual disability, a sharply divided (5 – 3) Texas Court of Criminal A…
