Hall v. Florida
Supreme Court of the United States
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kennedy
*704 This Court has held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution forbid the execution of persons with intellectual disability. Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 , 321, 122 S.Ct. 2242 , 153 L.Ed.2d 335 (2002). Florida law defines intellectual disability to require an IQ test score of 70 or less. If, from test scores, a prisoner is deemed to have an IQ above 70, all further exploration of intellectual disability is foreclosed. This rigid rule, the Court now holds, creates an unacceptable risk that persons with intellectual disability will be executed, and thus is…
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2Cases cited28 opinions
- Gregg v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Atkins v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
- Penry v. LynaughSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Roper v. SimmonsSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
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