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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-639 Thomas Dale Ferguson v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied adaptive-functioning capital-punishment circuit-split eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing moore-v-texas This case implicates two persistent conflicts of authority with regard to how courts are to determine whether a person suffers from an intellectual di…
23-167 John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-21 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (30) atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing standard-error-of-measurement According to Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2003), the Eighth Amendment exempts intellectually disabled offenders from capital punishment. The Cour…
22-5906 William Lee Thompson v. Florida Florida 2022-10-25 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing retroactivity standard-error teague-rule 1. In Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of defendants with int…