Entries tagged with “William Werkheiser”
Feb 12, 2025
Georgia House Considers Bill to Provide Pretrial Hearings to Identify Capital Defendants with Intellectual Disability
For the third consecutive session, the Georgia House of Representatives is reviewing a bill seeking to provide better protections to capital defendants with intellectual disabilities. Currently, the state requires a defendant to prove“beyond a reasonable doubt” that they have an intellectual disability – the only death penalty state to have this unusually high standard. Introduced by a bipartisan group of legislators on January 27, 2025, HB 123 would…