Ford v. Wainwright
Case Date: 05/06/1986
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Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399 (1986), was the case in which the United States Supreme Court upheld the common law rule that the insane cannot be executed; therefore the petitioner is entitled to a competency evaluation and to an evidentiary hearing in court on the question of his competency to be executed.[1]
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