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Under Atkins v. Virginia, the Eighth Amendment exempts from execution individuals who meet the clinical definitions of mental retardation set forth by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and the American Psychiatric Association. Both define mental retardation as significantly subaverage intellectual functioning accompanied by significant limitations in adapti...

The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law’s Committee on the Developmentally Disabled, founded in 1990, has continually grappled with the inequities faced by persons with mental retardation within the criminal justice system. Not the least of our concerns has been capital sentencing and execution of disabled defendants. Indeed, the Committee cut its teeth on the 1989 Supreme Court decision...

Encoding-Retrieval Relationships in Episodic Memory: A Functional Neuroimaging Perspective by Erik Atkins Wing Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Roberto Cabeza, Supervisor ___________________________ Elizabeth Marsh ___________________________ Tobias Egner ___________________________ David Madden An abstr...

The interest in State Legislatures in the topic of mental retardation and the death penalty has obviously heightened with the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Atkins v. Virginia, 122 S.Ct. 2242 (June 20, 2002). The purpose of this document is to provide legislators and advocates with guidance in implementing the Atkins decision, so that each State’s death penalty legislation is in full...

The effects of magnetic fields on chemical reactions have been the subject of several review articles in recent years (Atkins, 1976; Atkins and Lambert, 1975; Sagdeev et al., 1977b; Lawler and Evans, 1971 ; Turro and Kraeutler, 1980; Turro, 1983). It is the object of the present review to describe the current theory and to illustrate, with examples, the changes that arise in the formation of pr...