Judge denies intellectual disability defense for convicted Lakeland murderer Marcelle Waldon

Marcelle Waldon, who killed Edie Yates Henderson and David Henderson in Lakeland in 2020, will remain eligible for the death ...
Reuters

US Supreme Court to review death row inmate's intellectual disability ruling

WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by Alabama officials of a judicial decision that a man convicted of a 1997 murder is intellectually disabled - ...
Bucs Wire

State expert counters defense's claim of disability for convicted murderer Marcelle Waldon

A state expert countered the defense's claim of intellectual disability for convicted murderer Marcelle Waldon during an Oct.
KETV Omaha

Convicted murderer, death row inmate Nikko Jenkins files motion saying he's intellectually disabled

THANKS. A CONVICTED SERIAL KILLER FILES A MOTION IN DOUGLAS COUNTY COURT SAYING HE’S INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED AND THEREFORE CANNOT BE PUT TO DEATH. NOW, A JUDGE HAS A HEARING SET FOR NICO JENKINS.
Yahoo

After Executing an Intellectually Disabled Man, Georgia Rewrote Its Death Penalty Law

Anti-death penalty and disability advocates have criticized how Georgia handled intellectual disability in death penalty cases, because defendants had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they were ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

New Georgia law aims to keep intellectually disabled people off death row

With the stroke of a pen Tuesday afternoon, Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law a measure aimed at ensuring intellectually disabled people aren’t executed in Georgia. House Bill 123, which passed both ...