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The Constitution of the United States of America

Note 953 — AMENDMENT 14 (continued 4)

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Ibid. 12-13.—Disagreeing, Justice Frankfurter contended that a State is "precluded by the due process clause from executing a man who has temporarily or permanently become insane"; and thus bereft of unlimited discretion as to "how it will ascertain sanity," a State "must afford rudimentary safeguards for establishing [that] fact."—Ibid. 16, 19, 21, 24-25.

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