Excluding intellectually disabled offenders from execution
Subtitle: the continuing journey to implement Atkins
By: Peggy M. Tobolowsky
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Durham, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781611635638
Subjects: Capital punishment; Offenders with mental disabilities; Legal status, laws
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The evolution of the prohibition of the execution of intellectually disabled offenders : the journey from Penry to Atkins and beyond; title: Processes to identify intellectually disabled offenders and exclude them from execution : the intellectual disability definition; title: Application issues regarding the intellectual disability definition; title: Processes to identify intellectually disabled offenders and exclude them from execution : procedures to address Atkins claims; title: Federal courts' resolution of post-Atkins intellectual disability claims by federal offenders; title: State courts' resolution of post-Atkins intellectual disability claims; title: Challenges for state offenders pursuing Atkins claims through federal collateral review; title: Federal courts' resolution of post-Atkins intellectual disability claims by state offenders; title: "Appropriate ways" to enforce the Atkins execution exclusion for intellectually disabled offenders; title: The continuing journey to implement Atkins.