Talk:Atkins v. Virginia

Update in light of result of Hall v Florida
The Supreme Court released its decision in Hall v Florida, invalidating Florida's scheme for identifying mentally retarded defendants. A notation should probably be added to this article accordingly and I have added the "update" tag to the article. Safiel (talk) 19:20, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

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Sources for the Case Section
There's no sources cited in the case section. Quite a lot of it is verifiable but there's parts of it (such as Atkins having a prior string of violent crimes) that I can't source. I don't know if there's a reason for that (e.g. such sections on Wikipedia are considered common knowledge). However, it may be prudent to add a warning about a lack of citations at the top of the page. Wanted to throw this in the talk page before I did it myself. Just about nothing (talk) 21:19, 29 August 2022 (UTC)


 * it looks like most of the facts cited in the case section come from the court decision itself. i don't know if that should be cited throughout the section or not Just about nothing (talk) 21:26, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Please change "mentally retarded" to "offenders with a disability.
In the first paragraph theres a slur that needs to be changed. "Mentally retarded" is politically incorrect and needs to be changed. Thomasthedarkenguine (talk) 06:50, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
 * ❌ It's a quote. * Pppery * it has begun... 22:45, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
 * An edit was  Hyphenation Expert (talk) 23:25, 8 October 2023 (UTC)