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[**Impossible Proof: Intellectual **Disabilities** and the Death Penalty**][2]
**JURIST**
Ten years ago, the US Supreme Court, in Atkins v. Virginia, declared that executing those with intellectual **disabilities**, formerly "mental retardation," violates the US Constitution. The Court reasoned that the limitations of defendants with **...**
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