adaptive-deficits

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23A856 Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2024-03-20 Denied adaptive-deficits death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing woodard-precedent Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically bars the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant whose IQ scores and adaptive deficits demonstrat…
21-5854 Ernest Johnson v. Paul Blair, Warden Missouri 2021-10-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP adaptive-deficits atkins-v-virginia causal-connection eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas Whether a state can add a causal connection requirement to the definition of intellectual disability, ignoring Atkins and its progeny