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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 ...
Daniel Penny says a lawsuit filed by Jordan Neely’s father should be dismissed outright, according to a new filing by his attorneys. On Monday, Penny submitted a reply to the civil suit filed ...
On Dec. 22, 1984, Bernhard Goetz shot a group of would-be robbers on a New York City subway car in a case that has been compared to Daniel Penny's chokehold charges.
Follow The Post’s live updates from the courtroom as Daniel Penny, 26, stands trial for manslaughter after putting homeless man Jordan Neely, 30, in a chokehold onboard the subway in 2023.
The verdict drew an immediate reaction from across the nation. “Daniel Penny’s actions were heroic & protected the lives of people on that train,” House Speaker Mike Johnson wrote on X ...
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 ...