On Saving the Death Penalty: A Comment on Adam Gershowitz’s Statewide Capital Punishment
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Notes and Comment following in the Footsteps of Ford: Mental Retardation and Capital Punishment Post-atkins
not categorically prohibited by the Eighth Amendment). 2. See Lyn Entzeroth, Putting the Mentally Retarded Criminal Defendant to Death: Charting the Development of a National Consensus to Exempt the Mentally Retarded from the Death Penalty, 52 ALA. L. REV. 911 (2001); EMILY FABRYCK REED, THE PENRY PENALTY: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND OFFENDERS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION 14 (1993). 3. Atkins v. Virginia...
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تاریخ انتشار 2013