Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Subject "Atkins v. Virginia"
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(Alabama Law Review, 2004)In "Atkins v. Virginia", the U.S. Supreme Court held that people with mental retardation may not be executed. z Many advocates for people with disability cheered the decision, because it provides a group of disabled people ...
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(New Mexico Law Review, 2003)This article, written for a symposium on Atkins v. Virginia - the Supreme Court decision that prohibited execution of people with mental retardation - argues that people with severe mental illness must now also be protected ...