Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Chapter 1 Intellectual Disability and How It Is Diagnosed 1
Chapter 2 A Brief History of and Introduction to the
Modern American Death Penalty 15
Chapter 3 The Supreme Court and the Categorical
Exemption from Capital Punishment for
Persons with Intellectual Disability:
Atkins v. Virginia 37
Chapter 4 Atkins on the Ground: Post-Atkins Lower
Court Decisions 59
Chapter 5 Assessing Intellectual Functioning 85
Chapter 6 Assessing Adaptive Behavior 109
Chapter 7 Assessing the Age of Onset 135
Chapter 8 Expert Witnesses 143
Chapter 9 The Future of Atkins 161
Index 169
