EPISODE · Feb 20, 2002

Atkins v. Virginia

from U.S. Supreme Court 2001 Term Arguments

A case in which the Court found that sentencing a mentally disabled person to death is a violation of the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause.

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