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Hall v. Florida, No. 12-10882 (U.S. Supreme Court) (572 U.S. 701; 134 S.Ct. 1986) (May 27, 2014) (Justice Kennedy)

Loaded on April 28, 2014 published in Punch and Jurists June 02, 2014
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Here, by a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court rejected as too restrictive a Florida state law that prevented persons with an IQ score of 70 or more from arguing against the death penalty on the basis of an “intellectual disability”.

In Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), the Supreme ...

 

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