Whose execution was recorded as 'a cruel necessity'?
As I was going by Charing Cross As I was going by Charing Cross "As I was going by Charing Cross" (sometimes referred to as "As I was going to Charing Cross"), is an English language nursery rhyme. The rhyme was first recorded in the 1840s, but it may have older origins in street cries and verse of the seventeenth century. It refers to the equestrian statue of King Charles I in Charing Cross, London, and may allude to his death or be a puritan satire on royalist reactions to his execution. It was not recorded in its modern form until the mid-nineteenth century. It has a
Wrongful execution the district court, whose decision was subsequently affirmed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Penry would later appeal to the Supreme Court, who ultimately ruled in a five-to-four decision that the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution did not categorically prohibit the execution of persons with mental retardation. Following the 1989 "Penry" ruling, sixteen states as well as the federal government passed legislation that banned the execution of offenders with mental retardation. "Penry" was overruled in 2002 by "Atkins v. Virginia", which held that the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment precluded the execution of the