TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tassé,Marc J.
AU  - Blume,John H.
TI  - Intellectual disability and the death penalty: current issues and controversies 
SN  - 9781440840142 (print : alk. paper)
AV  - KF 9227.C2  .T184 2018
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Santa Barbara, California
PB  - Praeger
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - United States
KW  - Offenders with mental disabilities
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - People with mental disabilities and crime
KW  - Mentally ill
KW  - Commitment and detention
KW  - Insanity (Law)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -