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work_oe5jgin3ine3tkibveihtj3eda	S Jan Brakel	Individualizing justice after Atkins	2006	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1427	81	64	Virginia jury not to be retarded and therefore was mentally competent to receive the death penalty. years earlier had led the U.S. Supreme Court, in a landmark ruling, to declare that mentally retarded offenders are It shows that mere labels need not be determinative and that judges and juries as well as mental health experts called to assist them in capital cases can continue to work toward an individualized brand of justice. recent news that Daryl Atkins was found death eligible by a jury in Virginia gave me no particular moral much as it is to Daryl Atkins' individual disadvantage, does suggest things are working themselves out To treat the mentally retarded, legally or otherwise, as a "homogeneous group. Atkins, was not about the inmate's mental illness, But of course, Atkins left the decision of what constitutes the diagnosis of retardation to the states, with denouement in Atkins' case shows that mental health	./cache/work_oe5jgin3ine3tkibveihtj3eda.pdf	./txt/work_oe5jgin3ine3tkibveihtj3eda.txt