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Because it is against the Eighth Amendment to execute someone with an intellectual disability, they are not eligible for the death penalty.
What are Intellectual Disability Supreme Court Cases?
- Although the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment has been upheld by the Supreme Court, the Eighth Amendment does have certain procedural implications for when and how the death sentence may be applied.
- According to a recent NPR story, lethal injection induces tremendous agony and severe respiratory distress with accompanying feelings of drowning, asphyxiation, panic, and terror in the vast majority of cases.
- The Eighth Amendment would be broken if a prison guard purposefully ignored a prisoner's critical illness or injury. This would be considered cruel and unusual punishment.]
Applying the death penalty to people with intellectual disabilities does not further the legitimate goals of deterrence and retribution. This is a violation of the Eighth Amendment.
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