Legal Opinion
State v. Flores
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided June 3, 2004No. 27,845PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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. Eleven years before Atkins was decided, our Legislature prohibited the execution of defendants with mental retardation and established a procedure for ascertaining those capital defendants who are ineligible for the death penalty on that basis. See NMSA 1978, § 31-20A-2.1 (1991). The statutory provision outlining the…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley AuthoritySupreme Court of the United States · 1936
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3Cited by36 opinions
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