Kentucky Supreme Court May 24, 2012, No. 2011-SC-000056-MR (Bowling v. Commonwealth)

ABRAMSON, J.,

concurring:

I concur but write separately to emphasize one point. In Atkins v. Virginia, 586 U.S. 304, 806-07, 122 S.Ct. 2242, 153 L.Ed.2d 335 (2002), the United States Supreme Court recognized not only the diminished criminal responsibility, indeed “moral culpability,” of a mentally retarded offender but also society’s interest in not executing a mentally retarded person.