Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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. 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 ...
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 ]
Follow The Post’s live updates for the latest news from the Daniel Penny trial. The Marine, 26, is facing manslaughter charges for the 2023 chokehold death of homeless man Jordan Neely on the ...
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.
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.
Penry v. Johnson , 532 U.S. 782 (2001), is a United States Supreme Court Lynaugh , 492 U.S. 302 (1989), sanctioned the death penalty for mentally disabled offenders
Sister Sen. Penry Gustafson, R-Kershaw, is certainly gone. Allen Blackmon, a two-term Lancaster County Council member, easily won the pair’s Republican primary, capturing four out of every five ...