New Mexico Supreme Court June 3, 2004, 27,845 (State v. Flores)
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United States · · · 03-06-2004
OPINION
CHÁVEZ, Justice.
{1} The United States Supreme Court held in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304, 122 S.Ct. 2242, 153 L.Ed.2d 335 (2002), that execution of persons with mental retardation violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
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