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Pennsylvania Death Penalty Update: PA Supreme Court approves procedure for litigating Atkins mental retardation issues in death penalty cases

Filed under: Criminal Law, Death Penalty Cases, News Tags: , by Steven F. Fairlie @ December 22, 2011

In a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court case, Commonwealth v. Sanchez, the court declared that juries will have to rule when a defendant in a death penalty proceeding wants to argue that he is mentally disabled and therefore ineligible for execution. The high court upheld the death penalty for Abraham Sanchez Jr., who was convicted of […]

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