The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down Florida’s IQ parameters for death penalty inmates hardly solves the problem nationwide of states executing intellectually challenged prisoners.
Some death penalty experts say states such as Texas and Georgia are still trying to get around the Supreme Court’s standard set in 2002 in Atkins v. Virginia when it barred the execution of the “mentally retarded.”
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