Spring 2003, Vol. 33, No. 2

Beyond Atkins: A Symposium on the Implications of Atkins v. Virginia

Front Matter

INTRODUCTION          ix

Disability Advocacy and the Death Penalty: The Road from Penry to Atkins    173
James W. Ellis

Adolescence, Mental Retardation, and the Death Penalty: The Siren Call of Atkins v. Virginia   183
Victor L. Streib

Atkins, Adolescence, and the Maturity Heuristic: Rationales for a Categorical Exemption for Juveniles from Capital Punishment   207
Jeffrey Fagan

Atkins v. Virginia: A Psychiatric Can of Worms   255
Douglas Mossman, M .D.

What Atkins Could Mean for People with Mental Illness   293
Christopher Slobogin

"Life Is in Mirrors, Death Disappears": Giving Life to Atkins   315
Michael L. Perlin

Straight Is the Gate: Capital Clemency in the United States from Gregg to Atkins   349
Elizabeth Rapaport