Texas’s special-issues capital sentencing scheme did not allow the jury to give full mitigating effect to evidence of Penry’s intellectual disability and childhood abuse

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Penry v. Lynaugh is a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court decision addressing the constitutionality of imposing the death penalty on a defendant with intellectual disability and the adequacy of Texas’s capital sentencing procedures for considering mitigating evidence.

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Penry v. Lynaugh → holding → Texas’s special-issues capital sentencing scheme did not allow the jury to give full mitigating effect to evidence of Penry’s intellectual disability and childhood abuse ⓘ
Penry v. Lynaugh, 492 U.S. 302 (1989) → holding → Texas’s special-issue capital sentencing scheme did not allow the jury to give full mitigating effect to evidence of Penry’s intellectual disability and childhood abuse ⓘ
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