Excluding intellectually disabled offenders from execution : the continuing journey to implement Atkins / Peggy M. Tobolowsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tobolowsky, Peggy M., 1952- author.

Contributor:

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Offenders with mental disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.

Offenders with mental disabilities.

United States.

Capital punishment--United States.

Capital punishment.

Offenders with mental disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 257 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2014]

Contents:

The evolution of the prohibition of the execution of intellectually disabled offenders : the journey from Penry to Atkins and beyond

Processes to identify intellectually disabled offenders and exclude them from execution : the intellectual disability definition

Application issues regarding the intellectual disability definition

Processes to identify intellectually disabled offenders and exclude them from execution : procedures to address Atkins claims

Federal courts' resolution of post-Atkins intellectual disability claims by federal offenders

State courts' resolution of post-Atkins intellectual disability claims

Challenges for state offenders pursuing Atkins claims through federal collateral review

Federal courts' resolution of post-Atkins intellectual disability claims by state offenders

"Appropriate ways" to enforce the Atkins execution exclusion for intellectually disabled offenders

The continuing journey to implement Atkins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781611635638

1611635632

OCLC:

890814309

Publisher Number:

99978757073