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Current Cases
Despite the recent U.S. Supreme Court Atkins v. Virginia ruling, there still remain several issues involving mental retardation and capital punishment. The current cases section of the website details those cases involving persons with mental retardation on which we are currently working.
- Daryl Renard Atkins
Virginia
Mental Retardation
Mr. Daryl Renard Atkins was found mentally competent by a Virginia jury on Friday 5 August, 2005. A judge immediately scheduled his execution for December 2, 2005.
- Mr. Atkins still sits on death row in Virginia. It was for a jury to decide if he was indeed mentally retarded and thus not able to be executed. Recently, defence attorneys failed to convince a jury that Daryl Atkins was mentally retarded. The attorneys are planning to appeal.
- June 20, 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Atkins v. Virginia that the execution of persons with mental retardation was in fact unconstitutional
- Click
here for the full Opinion on Atkins v. Virginia.
- For summary and implications of the Atkins decision click here
- Amicus Curiae-European Union (This brief was originally written for Ernest McCarver. McCarver was made moot by North Carolina legislation, the Court then addressed the same issue in Atkins.)
- Ernest McCarver
North Carolina
Mental Retardation
- Milton Mathis
Texas
Possible Mental Retardation
Execution Date: Milton Mathis execution was scheduled for April 20, 2005. The sentence was stayed on April 18, 2005.
- Thomas Clyde Bowling
Kentucky
Mental Retardation
Execution Date: Granted Stay of Execution
- Glenn Holladay
Alabama
Mental Retardation
Execution Date: May 29, 2003
Stay of execution issued: May 26, 2003
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