Legal Opinion
Allen v. Buss
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 11, 2009No. 07-2486PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
In 1988, consistent with a jury’s verdict and sentencing recommendation, the Marion Superior Court in Indiana sentenced Howard A. Allen, Jr. to death by lethal injection for the murder and robbery of Ernestine Griffin. Since then, Allen has been asking the Indiana state courts to consider his claim that he is mentally retarded and therefore should not be executed. First, he sought relief when Indiana banned the execution of mentally retarded persons in 1994, but the Indiana courts held that the new statute did not apply retroactively to Allen. Instead, the state trial…
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