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Johnny Paul Penry (born May 5, 1956) is a Texas prisoner serving three consecutive sentences of life imprisonment without parole for rape and murder. He was on death row between 1980 and 2008, and his case generated discussion about the appropriateness of the death penalty for offenders who are thought to be intellectually disabled.
Penry v. Lynaugh , 492 U.S. 302 (1989), was a United States Supreme Court case that sanctioned the death penalty for mentally disabled offenders because the Court determined executing the mentally disabled was not "cruel and unusual punishment" under the Eighth Amendment . [ 1 ]
Penry v. Johnson, 532 U.S. 782 (2001), is a United States Supreme Court case which concerned whether instructions given to a Texas jury were constitutionally adequate to emphasize the mitigating factors in sentencing of defendants who are intellectually disabled ("retarded" in the Court's words.) [1] The Texas courts had determined the sentencing instructions were consistent with prior Supreme ...
Another delay is expected this month in the murder trial of an Abilene father and son accused of killing their neighbor over a dispute about a mattress in 2018, a court official said this week.
Richard T Gagnon/Getty Images Sean M. Higgins, the man charged with killing brothers Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, has pleaded not guilty. Higgins pleaded not guilty to all charges, including first ...
Proudfoot’s 2023 short documentary “Forgiving Johnny” follows Los Angeles County public defender Noah Cox as he seeks forgiveness from the justice system on behalf of his disabled client ...
A grand jury was impaneled on May 31 to hear Bragg's case against Penny. [70] On June 14, 2023, he was officially indicted by the grand jury. [ 71 ] At a second arraignment on June 28, 2023, the grand jury's indictment was unsealed, revealing a charge of criminally negligent homicide in addition to second-degree manslaughter, giving the trial ...
Sean Higgins, the suspected drunken driver accused in the deaths of former NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother last year, pleaded not guilty to all charges stemming from the fatal crash.