Additional Resources

DPIC Resources

Podcasts

• Discussions With DPIC — Intellectual Disability and the Death Penalty, With Law Professor John Blume (2016)
• Discussions With DPIC — He May Be Innocent and Intellectually Disabled, But Rocky Myers Faces Execution in Alabama (2020)

Archival DPIC Content

• Sentence Reversals in Intellectual Disability Cases (2002 – 2012)
• List of Defendants with Mental Retardation Executed in the United States (1976 – 2002)
• State Statutes Prohibiting the Death Penalty for People with Mental Retardation (pre-Atkins)
• Intellectual Disability News and Developments: 1999 – 2002
• Intellectual Disability News and Developments: 2003
• Intellectual Disability News and Developments: 2004

Articles and Other Resources

• Johnson, sheri Lynn, John H. Blume, and Brendan Van win­kle. ​“Atkins v. Virginia at Twenty: Still Adaptive Deficits, Still in the Developmental Period.” Wash. & Lee J. Civ. Rts. & Soc. Just. 29 (2022): 55.
• Kiel, Daniel. ​“Avoiding Atkins: How Tennessee is on the Verge of Unconstitutionally Executing an Individual with Intellectual Disabilities.” Law & Inequality (2020).
• Shaw, Emily V., et al. ​“INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, THE DEATH PENALTY, AND JURORS.” Jurimetrics, vol. 58, no. 4, pp.437 – 58. JSTOR (2018)
• J. Blume, ​“Intellectual Disability, Innocence, Race, and the Future of the American Death Penalty.” Human Rights, vol. 42, no.2, pp.10 – 13. JSTOR (2017)
• J. Blume, et al., ​“A TALE OF TWO (AND POSSIBLY THREE) ATKINS: INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TWELVE YEARS AFTER THE SUPREME COURT’S CREATION OF A CATEGORICAL BAR,” 23 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 393 (2014).
• Robert Schalock et al. in ​“The Renaming of Mental Retardation: Understanding the Change to the Term Intellectual Disability.” 45 Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 116 (2007)
• “Timing Of IQ Test Can Be A Life Or Death Matter.” Science Daily Magazine, October 6, 2003 — Full text of a news release from Science Daily Magazine about the impli­ca­tions on death row inmates who are giv­en IQ tests in years in which alter­ations to results are made to re-estab­lish the mean score at 100.
• “An Empirical Look at Atkins v. Virginia and Its Application in Capital Cases John H. Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson and Christopher Seeds; Tennessee Law Review, Vol. 76:625; Spring 2009 — States: ​“We found 234 cas­es adju­di­cat­ing the sub­stance of Atkins claims, which implies that about sev­en per­cent of all death row inmates have filed Atkins claims.…Nearly forty per­cent of all defen­dants who allege men­tal retar­da­tion have, in fact, proved it.”
• Model Legislation: ​“Mental Retardation and the Death Penalty: A Guide to State Legislative Issues” — for states to com­ply with the Atkins rul­ing, with com­men­tary by Professor James Ellis, Univ. of New Mexico Law School.
• The report, Beyond Reason: The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation, pro­vides numer­ous exam­ples of per­sons who have been sen­tenced to death despite their pro­found intellectual limitations.
• “The Penry Penalty: Capital Punishment and Offenders with Mental Retardation” by Emily Fabrycki Reed; Lanham: University Press of America (1993).
• “The Criminal Justice System and Mental Retardation: Defendants and Victims” by Ronald W. Conley, Ruth Luckasson, and George N. Bouthilet; Baltimore:Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co. (1992).
• Intellectual Competence & the Death Penalty (Blog)