As you consider your options, the court-appointed psychiatrist calls and tells you that he has examined the defendant and finds him to be severely developmentally challenged. The psychiatrist estimates the defendant's IQ to be in the 60's and recommends that you seek his school or medical records to find more information. You decide that, given this information, an attempt to seek the death penalty would not be legally supported, based on the ________________ decision.

a. Furman v. Georgia
b. Roper v. Simmons
c. Atkins v. Virginia
d. Kansas v. Hendricks


c

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