Notes and Comment following in the Footsteps of Ford: Mental Retardation and Capital Punishment Post-atkins
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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, 536 U.S. 304 (2002). 4. See id. at 321.
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