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Petition of the day

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on Nov 10, 2015

The petition of the day is:

Lizcano v. Texas
15-65

Issue: Whether Texas’s standard for determining if a capital defendant meets the second prong of the definition of intellectual disability (“deficits in adaptive functioning”) violates the Eighth Amendment in light of Atkins v. Virginia and Hall v. Florida.

Posted in Cases in the Pipeline

Recommended Citation: John Ehrett, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Nov. 10, 2015, 12:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/11/petition-of-the-day-875/