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The Supreme Court Takes Aim at Intellectually Disabled Death Row Inmates

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More than two decades ago, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision prohibiting the execution of people with intellectual disabilities. The case, Atkins v. Virginia, was no sidebar in the world of capital punishment.

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