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- Title
FROM STRICT IQ SCORE CUT OFFS TO DISREGARD OF PROBATIVE EVIDENCE: HOW THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT MUST ACT TO ENSURE CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION, BY PENNSYLVANIA AND OTHER STATES, TO INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED PERSONS WHO UNDESERVINGLY FACE EXECUTION.
- Authors
Avvisato, Rhiannon
- Abstract
The article discusses the inclusion of intellectually disabled persons in the exemption from capital punishment in the U.S. Topics mentioned include the analysis of the standard in Pennsylvania that will exempt intellectually disabled in capital cases, the reason why the use of intelligence quotient score cutoff is unconstitutional in the U.S. Supreme Court case Hall v. Florida, and a review of constitutional protection given by other U.S. states to intellectual disabled.
- Subjects
PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities &; crime; CAPITAL punishment of offenders with intellectual disabilities; EXEMPTION (Law); INTELLIGENCE levels; UNITED States. Supreme Court; UNITED States. Constitution
- Publication
Widener Commonwealth Law Review, 2021, Vol 30, Issue 2, p261
- ISSN
2578-5370
- Publication type
Article