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Atkins v. Virginia (2002)

US Supreme Court ruling categorically prohibiting the execution of intellectually disabled defendants under the Eighth Amendment; Hall v. Florida (2014) and Moore v. Texas (2017) refined the intellectual-disability assessment standard.

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