Summary
A VIRGINIA SUPREME Court decision last week will keep Daryl R. Atkins where he belongs: in prison for the rest of his life.
The ruling brings to an end more than 12 years of legal wrangling over a Yorktown murder, which prompted a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2002 banning the death penalty for defendants with mental retardation. It quiets the prosecutors who relentlessly pursued execution for Atkins, whose IQ was first measured at 59, 11 points lower than Virginia's retardation cutoff.See the full content of this document
Extract
A Decade Later, Killer Gets Just Punishment
It leaves unresolved the nagging issue of who actually pulled the trigger on a Langley Air Force Base airman in 1996 - Atkins or ...
See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
