Henry v. State
Annotate this CaseAfter a retrial, Appellant was convicted of the first-degree murder of his second wife. After an unsuccessful appeal and the denials of Appellant’s petitions for postconviction and habeas relief, the Governor signed a death warrant for Appellant and scheduled an execution date. Postconviction counsel subsequently requested a competency hearing under Fla. Stat. 922.07. Three experts reported after an examination that Appellant did not suffer from a psychiatric illness or intellectual disability and understood that nature of the death penalty and why the sentence had been imposed on him. Thereafter, Appellant filed a motion for determination of intellectual disability as a bar to execution, which the circuit court dismissed as untimely. The Supreme Court affirmed the postconviction court’s order dismissing Appellant’s motion, holding that Appellant did not demonstrate a facially sufficient claim of intellectual disability.
Some case metadata and case summaries were written with the help of AI, which can produce inaccuracies. You should read the full case before relying on it for legal research purposes.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.