Penry v. Lynaugh, 492 U.S. 302 (1989), was a United States Supreme Court case that upheld the death penalty for mentally disabled offenders because the Court determined executing the intellectually disabled was not "cruel and unusual punishment" under the Eighth Amendment.
Penry v. Lynaugh, 492 U.S. 302 (1989), was a United States Supreme Court case that upheld the death penalty for mentally disabled offenders because the Court determined executing the intellectually disabled was not "cruel and unusual punishment" under the Eighth Amendment.
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