{"id":1570,"date":"2013-11-07T13:55:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T18:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2013-11-07T13:55:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T18:55:20","slug":"scholarshipcornell-law-capital-punishment-intellectual-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2013\/11\/07\/scholarshipcornell-law-capital-punishment-intellectual-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarship@Cornell Law: Capital Punishment &amp; Intellectual Disability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month the Supreme Court announced it would address the issue of the death penalty and the mentally disabled. The scenario is one that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawschool.cornell.edu\/faculty\/bio_john_blume.cfm\">Cornell Professor John Blume<\/a> has published on frequently throughout his career and he has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-court-retardation-20131022,0,3530940.story?track=rss#axzz2iSBL6M13\">recently been quoted<\/a> in media reports detailing the court\u2019s decision to clarify its death penalty jurisprudence by granting cert in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/Search.aspx?FileName=\/docketfiles\/12-10882.htm\">Hall v. Florida.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Hall<\/em>, the defendant faces the death penalty in Florida and the Court is considering whether his situation mirrors that of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supremecourt\/text\/00-8452\"><em>Atkins v. Virginia<\/em>, 536 U.S. 304 (2002)<\/a> when the court held that executions of mentally disabled criminals are \u2018cruel and unusual punishments\u2019 prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholarship.law.cornell.edu\/\">The Scholarship@Cornell Law repository<\/a> is featuring two of Blume\u2019s publications dealing directly with<em> Atkins<\/em> and the issue of mental disability in death penalty cases.<\/p>\n<p>The first, co-authored with Sheri Lynn Johnson and Christopher Seeds is titled<a href=\"http:\/\/scholarship.law.cornell.edu\/facpub\/7\/\"> An Empirical Look at Atkins v. Virginia and its Application in Capital Cases, 76 Tenn. L. Rev. 625 (2009)<\/a>. The article looks at data of decisions post-Atkins to examine the implications it has had on factually similar cases. The second, <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarship.law.cornell.edu\/lsrp_papers\/122\/\">Of Atkins and Men: Deviations from Clinical Definitions of Mental Retardation in Death Penalty Cases, 18 Cornell J. L. &amp; Pol\u2019y 689 (2009)<\/a> also co-authored with Johnson and Seeds, examines the cross-jurisdictional similarities and differences of how states\u2019 define mental disability post-Atkins.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the latest scholarly articles from Professor Blume and the rest of the law school faculty visit the repository at <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarship.law.cornell.edu\/\">Scholarship@Cornell Law.<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month the Supreme Court announced it would address the issue of the death penalty and the mentally disabled. 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