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Atkins v. Virginia 536 U.S. 304 (2002) is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 6-3 that executing mentally retarded individuals violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishments but states can define who is mentally retarded.

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