NDRN joins Georgia P&As and Other Disability and Academic Experts in State’s Beyond-a-Reasonable-Doubt Intellectual Disability Standard for Capital Punishment

On December 27, 2021, NDRN and the Georgia Advocacy Office joined 2 other disability rights organizations and three medical and academic experts in intellectual disabilities in an amicus in support of a petition for certiorari in Young v. Georgia in the U.S. Supreme Court. The case involves whether Mr. Young had an intellectual disability and thus could not be subject to the death penalty. The amicus focuses on educating the court about how Georgia’s Beyond-a-Reasonable-Doubt standard violates the medical communities’ longstanding framework for diagnosing intellectual disability.