Intellectual Competence & the Death Penalty

An attempt to provide understandable and up-to-date information regarding intelligence testing, intelligence theories, personal competence, adaptive behavior and intellectual disability (mental retardation) as they relate to death penalty (capital punishment) issues. A particular focus will be on psychological measurement, statistical and psychometric issues.

Flynn effect reference project: 06-21-21

'No Defendant Has Ever Met This Burden': Inside Georgia's Death Sentence Ruling

Full article: Considering the boundaries of intellectual disability: Using philosophy of science to make sense of borderline cases

Atkins Court Decisions: Webster v US (2021), Haliburton v FL (2021)

Two recent Atkins related articles: Johnson et al (2019) and LaPrade & Worrall (2020)

Atkins Court Decisions: Bourgeois v US (2020), Milam v TX (2021), Reeves v AL (2020), Petetan v TX (2021)

That the powerful play goes on: Advances in forensic psychology, and next steps. - PsycNET

The future of intelligence research and gifted education - ScienceDirect

The Flynn effect in Germanophone preschoolers (1996–2018): Small effects, erratic directions, and questionable interpretations - ScienceDirect

Intellectual and developmental disabilities and the criminal justice system. - PsycNET

Theories and measurement of intelligence. - PsycNET

Lawyers to GA Supreme Court: Overturn intellectual disability standard

Atkins Law Review Article: Race, Intellectual Disability, and Death: An Empirical Inquiry Into Invidious Influences on Atkins Determinations (Johnson et al., 2020)

Atkins article: Determining Intellectual Disability in Death Penalty Cases: A State-by-State Analysis (2020). Jennifer LaPrade & John L. Worrall

Atkins article: "Man is opposed to fair play": An empirical analysis of how the Fifth Circuit has failed to take seriosly Atkins v Virginia - Perlin et al (2020)

Atkins ID after Moore V Texas Redux article - 2029

Atkins ID Death Penalty Court Decision: Texas High court stays execution of man with ID...1 week before he was set to die

The IOP-29 and the IOP-M: New Generation Symptom and Performance Validity Tests for Malingering Evaluations – Workshop O 3.5 CE Credits

New Burros MMY

James R. Flynn, Who Found We Are Getting Smarter, Dies at 86

The secular trend of intelligence test scores in the present century: The Danish experience - ScienceDirect

Webinar on new AAIDD classification manual

AAIDD Announces the Publication of the 12th Edition of its Manual

12th Edition of the AAIDD Manual Now Available!

New authoritative APA Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Intellectual Disability: Definition, Diagnosis, Classification, and Systems of Supports, 12th Edition

No negative Flynn effect in France: Why variations of intelligence should not be assessed using tests based on cultural knowledge - ScienceDirect

Atkins related court decision: Pervus Payne Tennessee case

Symposium: The Growing Impact of the Supreme Court Shadow Docket on Death Penalty Cases https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/symposium-the-growing-impact-of-the-supreme-court-shadow-docket-on-death-penalty-cases

Every second counts: A comparison of four dot counting test scoring procedures for detecting invalid neuropsychological test performance. - PsycNET