Intellectual disability and the death penalty current issues and controversies - Tassé, Marc J., author; Blume, John H., author (Santa Barbara, California Praeger, 2018)
Intellectual disability and how it is diagnosed -- A brief history of and introduction to the modern American death penalty -- The Supreme Court and the categorical exemption from capital punishment for persons with intellectual disability : Atkins v. Virginia -- Atkins on the ground : post-Atkins lower court decisions -- Assessing intellectual functioning -- Assessing adaptive behavior -- Assessing the age of onset -- Expert witnesses -- The future of Atkins.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Capital punishment -- United States; Offenders with mental disabilities -- United States. -- Legal status, laws, etc; People with mental disabilities and crime -- United States; Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- United States; Insanity (Law) -- United States