The states, the five-to-four majority ruled, cannot use a fixed IQ score as the measure of incapacity to be put to death. “Intellectual incapacity,” the Court said, “is a condition, not a number.”
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Capital punishment and IQ: what's in a number?
The US Supreme Court held that states can't assign an IQ score to when an intellectually disabled person can be executed.
The states, the five-to-four majority ruled, cannot use a fixed IQ score as the measure of incapacity to be put to death. “Intellectual incapacity,” the Court said, “is a condition, not a number.”
Article here (from scotusblog).
The states, the five-to-four majority ruled, cannot use a fixed IQ score as the measure of incapacity to be put to death. “Intellectual incapacity,” the Court said, “is a condition, not a number.”
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