Friday, January 9, 2015

New challenge awaits Georgia’s death-sentence standard

http://shar.es/1HRTv7

When Robert Wayne Holsey was put to death in Georgia recently, it marked yet the latest occasion when top appellate courts declined to consider the state's strict burden of proof for capital defendants seeking to be spared execution based on "intellectual disability.

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