Entries tagged with “Willie Smith III”

Jul 08, 2020

U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Review Three Cases on Scope of Protections Against Executing the Intellectually Disabled

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to step in to resolve fes­ter­ing dis­putes about the scope of the pro­tec­tions its pri­or rul­ings afford to intel­lec­tu­al­ly dis­abled death-row pris­on­ers. On July 2, 2020, the Court denied peti­tions to review three such cas­es, allow­ing death sen­tences in Alabama and Tennessee to stand despite the appli­ca­tion of uncon­sti­tu­tion­al­ly restric­tive stan­dards in assess­ing a prisoner’s intel­lec­tu­al dis­abil­i­ty, while…