iq-scores

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
25A118	Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee	Tennessee	2025-07-28	Denied		atkins-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores medical-standards	Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with intellectual disability when their IQ scores and diagnostic evidence demons…
19-8598	Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. v. Keith Yordy, Warden	Ninth Circuit	2020-06-04	Denied	IFP	adaptive-functioning adaptive-skills atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia clinical-standards eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-scores standard-error-of-measurement	Whether Atkins and the Eighth Amendment mandated the use of clinical standards for the determination of subaverage intelligence as measured by intelli…
18-7809	James Were v. Ohio	Ohio	2019-02-07	Denied	IFP	buck-v-davis competency-hearing death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores racial-bias	Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by refusing to reopen the petitioner's direct appeal to consider evide…