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Penry v. Lynaugh 492 U.S. 302 (1989) sanctioned the death penalty for mentally retarded offenders because the Court determined executing the mentally retarded was not cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. However because Texas law did not allow the jury to give adequate consideration as a mitigating factor to Johnny Paul Penry’s intellectual disability at the sentencing phase of his murder trial the Court remanded the case for further proceedings.