Become a Crime Scene Investigator: Supreme Court to Vet “Lennie Test” for Executing Mentally Disabled Inmates

Texas Department of Criminal Justice

More than a decade ago the U.S. Supreme Court declared executing mentally disabled people unconstitutional. However, the court didn’t define what standards should be used to determine what level of disability precludes execution, so Texas came up with its own standards, derived from John…
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