Entries by Hannah Weinstein

DPI​’s​“What to Know” series exam­ines cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment from mul­ti­ple angles, one top­ic at a time. Each install­ment pro­vides essen­tial facts and data on spe­cif­ic aspects of the death penal­ty. Why it Matters: In 2002, the United States Supreme Court held that exe­cut­ing indi­vid­u­als with intel­lec­tu­al dis­abil­i­ty is uncon­sti­tu­tion­al. (*Atkins v. Virgina)**.* Before that deci­sion, dozens of peo­ple with intel­lec­tu­al dis­abil­i­ties were legally executed.

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