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U.S. Supreme Court: No Death Penalty for Retarded; Juries Must Impose Death Sentence

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2002 by David Zuckerman published in Prison Legal News September, 2002, page 17
Filed under: Juries, Death Penalty, Mental Health. Locations: Arizona, Virginia.
June was a good month for many death row prisoners. In Ring v. Arizona , 122 S.Ct. 2428 (2002) and Atkins v. Virginia , 122 S.Ct. 2242 (2002), the Supreme Court placed new and significant limitations on the death penalty. These decisions could affect hundreds of prisoners.

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