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.

The secular trend of intelligence test scores: The Danish experience for young men born between 1940 and 2000

Greenspan & Brown (2021) on FASD as per AAIDD and DSM-5-TR approaches

Genetically informed, multilevel analysis of the Flynn Effect across four decades and three WISC versions - Giangrande - - Child Development - Wiley Online Library

‘Race-norming’ kept former NFL players from dementia diagnoses. Their families want answers.

Professional Pitfalls in Malingering Determinations | Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Ernest Johnson eligible for death penalty, Missouri Supreme Court says

Forensic evaluators’ opinions on the use of videoconferencing technology for competency to stand trial evaluations after the onset of COVID-19. - PsycNET

Discontinuing the Flynn effect reference archive project.

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