She knew he was intellectually disabled; blind and unable to communicate.
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Three men, including Lee, are (or were) at least borderline intellectually disabled.
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At 9 years old, Ruby had never been identified as intellectually disabled.
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Moore's lawyers contend their client is intellectually disabled and should be spared execution.
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Justice Sotomayor said Mr. Moore was at least as intellectually disabled as Lennie.
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Under Supreme Court precedent, people who are intellectually disabled cannot be sentenced to death.
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Furthermore, his attorneys argued Tharpe is ineligible for execution because he is intellectually disabled.
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Sidebar WASHINGTON — In 22012, the Supreme Court barred the execution of the intellectually disabled.
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Mr. McCollum, who is intellectually disabled, then began borrowing money at 3083 percent interest.
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I am a parent of an intellectually disabled freshman in high school named Sam.
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She's intellectually disabled and has behavior disorders, as well as obsessive compulsive and autistic tendencies.
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Florida requires courts to use current medical standards when determining whether someone is intellectually disabled.
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The Supreme Court has banned the execution of juvenile offenders and of the intellectually disabled.
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Dassey's attorneys, however, say he's borderline intellectually disabled and was pressured into a false confession.
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But with "spaces for the mentally ill or intellectually disabled, no, no, no," Shum said.
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Dassey&aposs attorneys, however, say he&aposs borderline intellectually disabled and was pressured into a false confession.
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He was diagnosed as mildly intellectually disabled in fourth grade, and the next year as bipolar schizophrenic.
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"Even the state's own expert said that it was probable that he was intellectually disabled," Sotomayor said.
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My public defender said they could fight my death sentence by having me classified as intellectually disabled.
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Many of the operations were conducted in psychiatric hospitals or other institutions where intellectually disabled patients lived.
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The Supreme Court has previously imposed limits on capital punishment for mentally incompetent or intellectually disabled people.
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Ohio currently has tens of thousands of developmentally- and intellectually-disabled individuals on its Medicaid waiting list.
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"The court harbors doubt as to whether Wilson would be considered intellectually disabled by most clinicians," he wrote.
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"The court harbors doubt as to whether Wilson would be considered intellectually disabled by most clinicians," he wrote.
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His attorneys filed a writ for habeas corpus claiming he is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for execution.
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In 2002, the court outlawed the execution of intellectually disabled capital defendants, a decision they reinforced in 2014.
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The lawyers argued their client was subject to coercive police tactics and that he is borderline intellectually disabled.
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He caught a break in 22004 when the Supreme Court decided that intellectually disabled peopled can't be executed.
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He caught a break in 2002 when the Supreme Court decided that intellectually disabled peopled can't be executed.
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Mr. French's cousin described the 32-year-old as a "gentle giant," who was intellectually disabled and nonverbal.
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Then there is the severely intellectually disabled Missouri man who was being molested by a younger male neighbor.
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They also said Williams' previous lawyers "unequivocally abandoned" a similar claim because testing showed he wasn't intellectually disabled.
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Virginia (2002), Kennedy joined an opinion holding that the death penalty could not be applied to intellectually disabled offenders.
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Moore claims he's intellectually disabled and therefore exempt from execution given the court's 2002 decision in Atkins v. Virginia.
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My dad was so traumatized afterwards that when he entered first grade, his teachers thought he was intellectually disabled.
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Mr. Davis, the lawyers argue, is intellectually disabled, with a low I.Q.; Mr. Ward, they contend, has paranoid schizophrenia.
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"It is simply not sustainable to continue to operate our intermediate care facility for the intellectually disabled," it said.
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The implication is clear: intellectually disabled people neither negotiate with fellow miscreants nor successfully flee and hide from law enforcement.
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Ms Sotomayor pressed Mr Keller to defend the CCA's reliance on Steinbeck's character to define who counts as intellectually disabled.
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Cecil and David — who were intellectually disabled — were mourned in a joint funeral at the Rodef Shalom temple on Tuesday.
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In Mr. Moore's case, a trial court found that he was intellectually disabled and constitutionally ineligible for the death penalty.
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The judge, Nicholas G. Garaufis, ruled last week that Mr. Wilson met the legal standard to be considered intellectually disabled.
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Justice Kennedy had voted with the majority in decisions that barred the execution of juvenile offenders and the intellectually disabled.
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Texas death row inmate Bobby Moore has been trying to convince the state that he's intellectually disabled for 303 years.
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In another death penalty case, the court ruled for Bobby James Moore, an intellectually disabled death row inmate in Texas.
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I know a profoundly intellectually disabled man, who can't even read the word "red" jailed on bail he can't afford.
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It has provided the wearables to homeless populations, veterans, senior homes, intellectually disabled adults and others in low income communities.
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When Mr. Moore's case was argued in November, Justice Sotomayor said he was at least as intellectually disabled as Lennie.
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And now a barbaric attack in Chicago on an intellectually disabled teenager is rightly being treated as a hate crime.
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There are countless other such programs from the grassroots level on up that afford similar exposure for the intellectually disabled.
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Texas, No. 18-443, the court ruled that Bobby James Moore, a death row inmate in Texas, was intellectually disabled.
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A lower court had found that Moore, who's shown an IQ of about 673 in the past, was intellectually disabled.
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A lower court had found that Moore, who's shown an IQ of about 70.66 in the past, was intellectually disabled.
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The U.S. Supreme Court in 2017 had faulted Texas for its obsolete standard of assessing if the inmate was intellectually disabled.
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According to the NBC News report, the woman — a client at the MLVE Community Center in Springfield, Virginia — was intellectually disabled.
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Mentally ill and intellectually disabled people have been subjected to torture, confinement, and forced sterilization based on public fear and misunderstanding.
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Williams was an intellectually disabled 16-year-old when police arrested him in the January 1998 shooting death of Jarvis Griffin.
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By contrast, children and the severely intellectually disabled qualify for human rights, but we don't hold them accountable for their actions.
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"I quickly realized that everything I thought I knew about developmentally and intellectually disabled folks was wrong and misinformed," Gillis says.
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Furthermore, the attorneys say Tharpe is intellectually disabled, which would make it illegal for him to be executed under federal law.
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The Life of a Disabled Child, From Taunts to Hate Crimes Things have improved for intellectually disabled people like my brother.
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This week, Words, a bookstore in Maplewood, N.J., that employs intellectually disabled people as booksellers, opened a shop in the complex.
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Virginia barred the execution of the intellectually disabled as a violation of the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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"The CCA's decision that Moore's IQ scores established he is not intellectually disabled", Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote, "is irreconcilable with Hall".
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In 19993, the justices invalidated the state's rigid, unscientific rule that skirted the court's clear 2002 ban on executing intellectually disabled people.
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Various courts have turned down numerous appeals from his attorneys, including those claiming he is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for execution.
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Most are unknown during their lifetime; they range from institutionalized mental patients and incarcerated prisoners, to intellectually disabled people and hermetic geniuses.
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Instead, she began photographing people who could not return her probing, empathetic gaze: the intellectually disabled, the blind, the oblivious passer-by.
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Moore's lawyers have argued his death sentence violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment because he is intellectually disabled.
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The court, which has barred the execution of juvenile offenders and the intellectually disabled, is now turning its attention to old people.
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What is more, at least one of the men facing imminent execution is intellectually disabled and should be categorically ineligible for execution.
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Virginia, which barred the execution of the intellectually disabled as a violation of the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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In 2002, the court barred the execution of the intellectually disabled but left it largely up to the states to implement the ruling.
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Using stigma against the intellectually disabled to mock Christianity (in both the original comic and the television show) isn't a terrific story choice.
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Kienholz lives with six other men who are both intellectually disabled and included on a national list of people convicted of sexual misconduct.
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They are also arguing Tharpe is intellectually disabled, Kammer said, which would make it impossible for him to be executed under federal law.
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This happened most often in homicide cases in which the defendant was a juvenile, intellectually disabled, mentally ill or some combination of the three.
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Can a state that has pledged to end the confinement of mentally ill inmates in solitary continue to keep intellectually disabled inmates indefinitely isolated?
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They apply to many inmates held in isolated detention, whether they are mentally ill or intellectually disabled or neither or some combination of both.
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While the portrayal of madmen and fools has a venerable artistic tradition, Arbus's subjects are intellectually disabled, not insane, and they are physically unrestrained.
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Mr. Gibson, who was poor and apparently, from the records, intellectually disabled and afflicted by acute mental health problems, was forced to represent himself.
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L.C., a key disability civil rights case involving two intellectually disabled women who sued for their right to live in the community and won.
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A Florida man, who worked in a group home for people with disabilities, has been arrested after an intellectually disabled woman allegedly had his baby.
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Moore's lawyers argue he is intellectually disabled and thus not eligible for the death penalty, and now get another chance to show that in court.
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In a three-day period in 1977, Gates, an intellectually disabled black man, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for murdering a white woman.
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The Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that the execution of people who are intellectually disabled violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Bowles' attorneys had appealed to the Supreme Court for a stay, arguing that Bowles is intellectually disabled and that was something no court had considered.
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A group home for the intellectually disabled could mean, as it does at Sunnyside Plaza, five residents share a bedroom and 20 share a house.
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That ruling barred the execution of the intellectually disabled but largely left it to individual states to fashion their own standards in deciding who qualifies.
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Evidence that Mr. Lee was intellectually disabled and suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome was never introduced into court, mainly because he had egregiously bad representation.
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On Wednesday afternoon, when grilled pork chop was a lunch special, residents expressed little concern for Mr. Williams, whose lawyers argue he is intellectually disabled.
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Florida, that struck down as too rigid the I.Q. score cutoff Florida used to decide which intellectually disabled individuals must be spared the death penalty.
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"With one hand, the Florida Supreme Court recognized that such intellectually disabled prisoners sentenced before Hall have a right to challenge their executions," she wrote.
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Heidi (Talitha Bateman) lives with her intellectually disabled mother, Mama (Jessica Collins), whom she cares for with help from her agoraphobic neighbor, Bernadette (Alfre Woodard).
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In the petition, which asked the board to commute Fults' sentence to life without parole, his lawyers described the inmate as intellectually disabled and deeply remorseful.
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The Briseno factors rely on the character Lennie from the novel "Of Mice and Men" as an example of someone Texas residents might find intellectually disabled.
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Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court sided Tuesday with a death row inmate whose lawyers argued that he should not be executed because he is intellectually disabled.
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If Kavanaugh believes that intellectually disabled people shouldn't be consulted about life decisions, some fear he may be slow to defend their right to equal access.
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But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the trial court's finding in 2015 and ruled that Moore wasn't intellectually disabled — and therefore, could be executed.
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Washington (CNN)Five Supreme Court justices Tuesday seemed to agree with arguments that a Texas death row inmate should not be executed because he is intellectually disabled.
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The Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that the execution of people who are intellectually disabled violates the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Afterwards, she lived quietly in a Wisconsin institution for the intellectually disabled, where she was cared for by nuns and died in January 2005 at age 86.
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A claim that Lee was intellectually disabled was introduced at one point, the report showed, but the federal defender who introduced that was removed from the case.
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The justices ended the execution of intellectually disabled people in 2002 after observing that such executions had become "uncommon" even though they remained legal in many states.
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Prosecutors are appealing a federal judge's finding that a man convicted of killing two New York City police detectives cannot be executed because he is intellectually disabled.
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At issue in the arguments the eight justices heard on Tuesday was whether Texas is using an obsolete standard to assess whether a defendant is intellectually disabled.
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A group of former prosecutors and Justice Department officials is now petitioning the Supreme Court to review the years-old murder conviction of an intellectually disabled teen.
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The lower court that upheld Moore's sentence wrongly used a quarter-century old definition employed in Texas when it determined Moore was not intellectually disabled, the court ruled.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out a death sentence for a Texas man who argued he could not be put to death because he is intellectually disabled.
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The court has already relied on that provision to ban the execution of juvenile offenders, the intellectually disabled and those convicted of crimes against people other than murder.
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Gayle wasn't sure whether Eli's imperviousness to social slights meant that he was more intellectually disabled than some of his Williams peers or simply more happy-go-lucky.
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Braziel appealed his conviction on several grounds, arguing he was denied adequate legal representation, due process and that he is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible to be executed.
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Mr. McCollum and his half brother, Leon Brown, who is also intellectually disabled, were demonized and convicted in one of the state's most notorious rape and murder cases.
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The announcement comes a day after Hacienda said it decided to close the intermediate care facility for intellectually disabled patients because keeping the facility open was unsustainable. Gov.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday continued a trend toward limiting capital punishment, rejecting Texas' approach to deciding which intellectually disabled people must be spared the death penalty.
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Justices have previously ruled that the execution of the intellectually disabled violates the Constitution, but the court has largely left it up to the states to implement the ruling.
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The Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that the execution of people who are intellectually disabled violates the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which bans cruel and unusual punishment.
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In 2014 Mr Moore had his death sentence revoked after successfully making a claim under Atkins v Virginia, a ruling of 2002 banning the execution of intellectually disabled people.
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They argued that a lower court that upheld his sentence wrongly used an "outdated" 24-year-old definition used in Texas when it determined he was not intellectually disabled.
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Braziel appealed his conviction on several grounds, arguing he was denied adequate legal representation and due process and that he is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible to be executed.
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There are about 10,000 developmentally and intellectually disabled adults living in such situations in New York City, a number that keeps growing as the state shuts down public institutions.
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It's common to point out that intellectually disabled adults "fall through the cracks," but this metaphor is not quite right, because it suggests a landscape that is mostly solid.
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Moore's lawyers argued that the lower court wrongly used an "outdated" 23-year-old definition used in Texas of intellectual disability when it determined that Moore was not intellectually disabled.
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"Brendan Dassey was a sixteen-year-old, intellectually disabled child when he was taken from his school and subjected to a uniquely and profoundly flawed legal process," the petition said.
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It should also be emphasized that just as being mentally or intellectually disabled does not make one incompetent; it also does not mean one is more likely to be dangerous.
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With an intellectually disabled daughter at home, and her house-builder husband frequently in India, Sarki had found it difficult to find time for daily chores before the pump arrived.
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It was the first such sentence imposed in New York in over 50 years, though a judge recently reversed that decision because Mr. Wilson was considered to be intellectually disabled.
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After the Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that the intellectually disabled cannot be executed, Ortiz's appellate lawyers sparred with federal prosecutors over whether their client suffered from such a disability.
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For decades, Special Olympics has served intellectually disabled athletes, giving them the opportunity to participate in physical fitness -- and in the process, show the world they're just like everyone else.
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In response, Scott Keller, the Texas solicitor-general, noted that the justices largely left it to the states to decide who qualifies as mentally retarded, or, in today's parlance, "intellectually disabled".
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Lawyers for Moore argue that a lower court determined that Moore was "intellectually disabled and constitutionally ineligible" for the death penalty, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed that decision.
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In the past 14 years alone, the Supreme Court has barred the execution of several categories of people: minors, the intellectually disabled, and those convicted of a crime other than murder.
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After an assailant killed 19 people in a knife attack at a facility for intellectually disabled people in 2016, most of their families asked the police not to release their names.
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He worked to execute insane, mentally ill and intellectually disabled people, among others, who were convicted in trials riddled with instances of prosecutorial misconduct, racial discrimination and grossly inadequate defense lawyering.
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In 2014, a Texas judge found that evidence that Mr Moore was intellectually disabled and, in line with Hall v Florida, recommended that his death sentence be reduced to life in prison.
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Pollack came up with the initial idea after his wife's mother died unexpectedly, leaving his brother-in-law (who is intellectually disabled and requires a significant amount of help) in their care.
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"We don't want parents killing their intellectually disabled kids and then committing suicide, which has happened before," said Fu. "We feel that it's better the patients stay here until they pass away."
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Mr. Sutherland, a licensed practical nurse, had worked at Hacienda since 2012 and was assigned to a unit treating intellectually disabled people since 2014, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
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According to the Pennsylvania Waiting List Campaign (a site dedicated to tracking long wait lists for services that serve intellectually disabled) ,as of December 31, 2015, 13,886 are on waiting lists for services.
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But decisions in the wake of Gregg v Georgia have barred the execution of people who are insane (1986), intellectually disabled (2002), under 18 when committing their crimes (2005) and psychotically deluded (2007).
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Mentally ill and physically and intellectually disabled women were subjected to forced sterilization, and in 1940 the government established a medical-murder program, with six execution centers, equipped with "showers," to destroy them.
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Beginning in 1969 and continuing through the last two years of her life, Diane Arbus traveled regularly by bus to New Jersey to photograph people at residences for the developmentally and intellectually disabled.
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The two intellectually disabled men were "beautiful souls" who had "not an ounce of hate in them — something we're terribly missing today," Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, a survivor of the massacre, said at their funeral.
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And Justice Anthony Kennedy has expressed concerns about the death penalty's imposition, and has cast key votes excluding groups of people — like children and the intellectually disabled — from being eligible for the death penalty.
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Hong Kong's Lok Sam House is a government-funded medical hostel for the intellectually disabled, one of only a handful of facilities in the city of more than 21970 million dedicated to that purpose.
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Discussing her results, I was almost too ashamed to ask the neuropsychologist if Ruby was, in fact, intellectually disabled, but I forced myself to, adding the term "mentally retarded" to make myself perfectly clear.
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The numbness will break only when you find out that Cecil Rosenthal — the intellectually disabled, gentle giant of a man your mother has known since grade school — was murdered along with his brother, David.
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The focus stays tight on the working-class Vincolo family as they negotiate life with an intellectually disabled daughter in a Chicago suburb: Bernie, now in her 20s and still playing in a sandbox.
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About 6,500 American schools participate in the Special Olympics' Unified Champions Schools program, which endeavors to integrate intellectually disabled athletes with their peers who don't have disabilities, according to Special Olympics spokeswoman Rebecca Simon.
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"This Court has received six amici curiae briefs from various individuals and groups, some of whom are mental health experts and capital punishment experts, all also opining that [Moore] is intellectually disabled," Alcala wrote.
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Diane Stanley has seven children in her home: her biological son, Cooper, 22; her foster son, David, 230, who is intellectually disabled; and five younger children whom she and her husband adopted in November 240.
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In an unusual move, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg, a Democrat and the prosecutor overseeing the case, had agreed in court filings that Moore, who has spent decades on death row, is intellectually disabled.
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"In the case of the intellectually disabled, more than 90 percent of them cannot talk," said Toru Yuki, president of the National Intellectual Disabilities Association for Parents and Families, after a visit to Yamayuri-en.
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"Today, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that all persons with intellectual disability are exempt from execution, and that current medical standards must be used to determine whether a person is intellectually disabled," said Cliff Sloan, Moore's lawyer.
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It was the kind of daily interaction that her lawyers say was unfairly stripped away from Shantell, who is intellectually disabled and a mother to two other daughters, ages 2 and 3, and parents like her.
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The legal efforts have been bolstered by federal recommendations issued in 2015 and by the threat of a federal lawsuit against the state of Massachusetts for violating the rights of a mother who was intellectually disabled.
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To start paying rent, Mr. Lewis needed more money, but he was denied Supplemental Security Income the first few times he applied because the evaluators did not believe he was intellectually disabled, his case manager said.
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He spoke out forcefully on the need to fix the nation's broken criminal justice system, voting to strike down excessive sentences for juveniles and the intellectually disabled and to force states to shrink their overcrowded prisons.
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At the time of the 2002 Supreme Court decision, 18 states had recently ended the death penalty for intellectually disabled defendants, joining a dozen that had previously done so or had abolished the death penalty entirely.
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At the time of the 2002 Supreme Court decision, 18 states had recently ended the death penalty for intellectually disabled defendants, joining a dozen that had previously done so or had abolished the death penalty entirely.
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Unified Sports pairs intellectually disabled younger athletes with non-disabled volunteers of a similar age and ability level, in an effort to establish a common ground and break down misconceptions about people living with intellectual disabilities.
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In the most vivid exchange of the morning, Ms Sotomayor pressed Mr Keller to defend the CCA's reliance on Lennie, a fictional farmhand in John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men", to define who counts as intellectually disabled.
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Six years later, the Special Olympics first annual Summer Games took place, on July 20, 1968, in Chicago, bringing together 1000 intellectually disabled athletes from 26 states and Canada to compete in track, swimming, and floor hockey.
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"The Hacienda Healthcare Board of Directors, after a great deal of careful consideration, has come to understand that it is simply not sustainable to continue to operate our Intermediate Care Facility for the Intellectually Disabled," the board said.
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New York City agreed earlier this year to pay $950,000 to the family of an intellectually disabled girl who was suspended for engaging in sexual activity on campus after she reported being assaulted by a group of students.
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Lauren Shapiro, director of the Family Defense Practice at Brooklyn Defender Services, said the city's Administration for Children's Services has failed to provide adequate programs and services that could assist intellectually disabled parents in caring for their children.
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" But Justice Elena Kagan questioned whether the lower court's rejection of the views of clinicians on some issues might mean "people with mild impairment can be executed, even though the clinicians would find those people to be intellectually disabled.
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Hacienda Healthcare agreed Friday afternoon to permit the Arizona Department of Health Services to exercise licensing authority over the Intermediate Care Facility for the Intellectually Disabled after state officials expressed concerns over the company's decision to shutter the facility.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texas cannot execute a black death row inmate convicted in the 133 Houston murder of a grocery store clerk, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, concluding that he is intellectually disabled and therefore exempt from capital punishment.
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"The jury that sentenced Mr. Bourgeois to death never learned that he was intellectually disabled," Victor Abreu, another lawyer for Bourgeois, said in a statement, adding that no court has ever used proper scientific standards to review his client's disability.
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By taking this approach, the Court avoided entirely the question of whether the citizens who objected to the home were motivated by bigotry; it also skirted the Waldronesque question of what it might mean to treat intellectually disabled people equally.
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According to this definition, which the court suggested was based upon the character in Mr Steinbeck's novel, neither a low IQ nor a deficit in "adaptive behaviour" qualifies an individual as intellectually disabled unless the latter is directly traceable to the former.
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In response, Scott Keller, the Texas solicitor general who has appeared before the justices several times in the last few years, noted that Atkins largely left it to the states to decide who qualifies as mentally retarded, or, in today's parlance, "intellectually disabled".
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" The court has barred the death penalty for the intellectually disabled and juvenile defendants, finding that because of their impairments limiting judgment and control, they "do not act with the level of moral culpability that characterizes the most serious adult criminal conduct.
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The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled late on Wednesday to send Dexter Johnson's case back to a federal district court after his attorneys argued the 31-year-old was intellectually disabled and previously lacked sufficient legal representation, according to court documents.
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Throughout the appellate process, some of Lee's attorneys have argued that his trial defenders failed to adequately investigate his past for mitigating evidence—including claims that he is intellectually disabled—that might have convinced the jury to give him a life sentence.
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In 83, a Texas trial court found that Moore couldn't be executed because he met the definition of intellectually disabled under the updated American Association of Intellect and Developmental Disability guidelines — not the 2004 standard the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals was using.
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A memorial to those who lost their lives in 2018 His projects after leaving the National Theater included serving as a technical adviser for the 1979 television movie " … And Your Name Is Jonah," about a deaf boy who is wrongly labeled intellectually disabled.
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JACKSON, Ga. — The United States Supreme Court granted a temporary stay of execution Tuesday night for a 59-year-old Georgia man whose lawyers argue that he is intellectually disabled and that his death sentence is tainted by a juror's racial bias.
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Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of Federal District Court in Brooklyn wrote in a decision marked by notes of hesitation that the gang member, Ronell Wilson, was ineligible for execution because he was considered to be intellectually disabled under a relatively recent Supreme Court ruling.
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I want the government to build more of these facilities, so there's no need for the intellectually disabled to wait so long—and I want the government to train more people to take care of them, because there aren't enough social workers and therapists.
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An intellectually disabled person may not be able to parse difficult texts at the library; a physically disabled person may not be able to get up the front steps to that same library; someone with a speech impediment may be dealt with patronizingly there.
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Hamas's unwillingness to accept the Quartet's conditions (recognizing Israel, renouncing terror from Gaza and the West Bank, and honoring past agreements), coupled with its cruel refusal to repatriate two intellectually disabled Israeli civilians and the bodies of fallen soldiers, is evidence of the group's unchanging nature.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the 5-3 opinion holding that a lower court that ruled against Moore had relied upon outdated standards She said the lower court's conclusion that Moore's IQ scores established that he is not intellectually disabled are "irreconcilable" with Supreme Court precedent.
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But they haven't, and even though the waiting list to get a spot in Lok Sam is 12 or 13 years long—that's when the next inpatient will die, freeing up a space—there are no plans to build other facilities where the intellectually disabled can live.
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The games aim to promote inclusion The goal of the Special Olympics is simple: It wants to give children and adults with intellectual disabilities the opportunities to participate in sports, and physical fitness activities to promote the inclusion of all intellectually disabled people around the world.
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"The Hacienda Healthcare board of directors, after a great deal of careful consideration, has come to understand that it is simply not sustainable to continue to operate our Intermediate Care Facility for the Intellectually Disabled," the company's statement said, adding that the board had voted on Feb.
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ANTONIN SCALIA warned fifteen years ago that prohibiting the execution of intellectually disabled criminals as a violation of the Eighth Amendment's bar on cruel and unusual punishment would turn "capital trial[s] into a game" where defendants would "feign" mental retardation in order to escape the ultimate punishment.
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Emphasising the savvier aspects of Mr Moore's 1980 crime—and not-so-subtly suggesting that he may not have been as intellectually disabled as he claimed—Mr Roberts noted that Mr Moore and his co-conspirators "negotiat[ed] their respective shares of the money they intended to steal".
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A 2015 survey by Think College of some 900 intellectually disabled students found that those who spent most of their time in traditional classes, soaking up campus culture and fine-tuning their social skills, had better job rates than those who spent most of their time in specialized classes.
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As a result, the court has recognized a right to same-sex marriage but invalidated part of the Voting Rights Act, rejected restrictions on corporate spending in elections but halted states' efforts to execute the intellectually disabled, and aggravated just about everyone involved in the debate over reproductive rights.
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The judges also pointed out that Moore had initially claimed to not be intellectually disabled, alleging that any "difficulties he had were due to the abusive environment in which he grew up, emotional issues resulting therefrom, and his lack of opportunities to learn," Presiding Judge Sharon Keller wrote.
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Now the partially-paralyzed and intellectually-disabled 52-year-old cashier is receiving hugs, letters of support and donations from customers, after he was called to the store manager's office on April 2 and fired for excessive price-matching and for hugging too many people, which slowed down his line.
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A white South Carolina man who managed a buffet restaurant near Myrtle Beach admitted in federal court this week that he had beaten and verbally abused an intellectually disabled black cook, forcing him to work over 100 hours a week without pay for about five years, according to the Justice Department.
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" The first three funerals were held on Tuesday, with thousands of mourners jamming a synagogue, a Jewish community center and a third, undisclosed site for the funerals of a beloved family doctor, a pillar of the congregation, and two intellectually disabled brothers in the 50s who were known as "the boys.
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In what would become a decades-long secret and a source of deep shame for the most famous dynasty in American history, Joe and Rose Kennedy's intellectually disabled eldest daughter lost everything at age 23, when her father scheduled a catastrophic lobotomy that left her with the mental capacity of a toddler.
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Keyes' novel is an award-winning genre favorite, taking a science fiction premise — about an intellectually disabled adult who undergoes a medical treatment to boost his IQ then becomes painfully aware of his own inevitable decline — and making it relatable to a general audience by focusing on the main character's growing unhappiness.
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Even where Roberts disagreed with Kennedy in the resolution of one of the court's capital cases in recent years — over the way states determine who is intellectually disabled and thus exempt from the death penalty — Roberts agreed with Kennedy (and the court majority) that the test at issue used by Texas was improper.
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The Supreme Court just paved the way for Texas to potentially overturn dozens of death sentences The Supreme Court just paved the way for Texas to potentially overturn dozens of death sentences Texas death row inmate Bobby Moore has been trying to convince the state that he's intellectually disabled for 20123 years.
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He also stood up for criminal defendants in ways that counted, voting to strike down the death penalty for people who commit crimes as juveniles or are intellectually disabled, ordering California to address the terrible overcrowding in its prisons, and suggesting that he had serious doubts about the constitutionality of prolonged solitary confinement.
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Since Atkins leaves it up to the states to decide who counts as intellectually disabled, Ms Johnson noted, and since the Texas legislature had not weighed in, the rule in the Lone Star state should be traced back to a 1992 standard the court had relied upon in Ex Parte Briseño, a 2004 ruling.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday faulted Texas, the U.S. leader in executions, in a death penalty case for the second time in a month and again ruled in favor of a black inmate, finding the state used an obsolete standard to assess whether he is intellectually disabled and exempt from capital punishment.
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In 2014, during an oral argument in a death-penalty case involving an intellectually disabled man who had been sentenced to die 35 years earlier, Justice Anthony Kennedy asked whether such a long wait is "consistent with the purposes that the death penalty is designed to serve" and reflects the "orderly administration of justice".
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That turns Moore into a fairly minor case policing precedents about the inapplicability of capital punishment to intellectually disabled inmates rather than a potentially fascinating foray into the ethics and metaphysics of delivering the ultimate punishment to a man nearing the end of his sixth decade who commmitted a murder when he was 20.
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Wetzel, the nationally-known, reform-minded secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is the lead defendant in a federal lawsuit and injunction request filed three weeks ago by lawyers for Johnson, an intellectually disabled man who allegedly has spent the past 36 years in solitary confinement in the prisons of the Keystone State.
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Less energy is devoted to debating the death penalty's supposed purposes of deterrence and retribution; more discussion, and litigation, revolves around peripheral issues like exempting children and the intellectually disabled from capital punishment, the relative roles of juries and judges in issuing death sentences, and the constitutionality of certain execution methods that may cause suffering before death.
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Judge Neil Gorsuch is more than well qualified, and while he is very conservative, he would be a great improvement over Justice Antonin Scalia, who voted to end Miranda warnings, favored the death penalty even for minors and the intellectually disabled, said the Constitution's equal protection clause did not apply to women, and was totally opposed to gay rights.
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The Stone In October 2015, a New Jersey jury convicted Anna Stubblefield, a former professor of ethics at Rutgers University, on two counts of aggravated sexual assault on a 29-year-old man with severe cerebral palsy, known in the court records as D.J. The prosecution claimed that D.J. is sufficiently intellectually disabled to be incapable of consenting to sex and then alleged that Stubblefield had exploited and raped him.
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So far, the new term's docket includes cases involving, among other things, the use of race in redrawing state legislative districts, a free-speech challenge to a federal law that denies protection to disparaging trademarks, a challenge to the secrecy of jury deliberations when there is evidence that a juror was racially biased against the defendant and Texas's unscientific standard for determining whether someone is intellectually disabled enough to be spared from execution.
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As two people who for years have each had our own close involvement with Special Olympics and the needs of the intellectually disabled -- one of us as a governor who made meeting those needs a priority and the other as a lifelong advocate for Special Olympics and daughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the program's founder -- we are moved to add our voices to the rising chorus of those who believe in the importance of supporting federal funding for this invaluable organization.
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