Ford v. Wainwright
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Ford v. Wainwright, Template:Ussc, 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.
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