Florida High Court Again Reverses Itself on Death Penalty
The ruling means that Harry Phillips can't make the case that his death sentence should be converted to life because he is intellectually disabled.
May 22, 2020 at 01:32 PM
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The Florida Supreme Court reversed its previous ruling allowing any death row inmate to challenge a sentence based on a higher standard for determining whether they are intellectually disabled.
The decision marked the second time this year that the new-look court overturned one of its own decisions on the death penalty.
The court reversed a previous decision that allowed retroactively applying a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said Florida couldn't base the determination of a condemned prisoners intellectual disability strictly on an IQ test because there is a margin of error.
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