A Racial Timeline: Stigmatization to Execution: (A Resource for Atkins Claims)

by Edward Burns

The purpose of this book is to focus on how the mental retardation/intellectual disability category is used to stigmatize and deprive children of educational opportunity, many of whom are black, and then to deny adults, many of whom are also black, lesser culpability for capital crimes as mandated by the Supreme Court in Atkins v. Virginia in 2002. For many black children the mental retardation/intellectual disability category has been a ready solution,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1698442297
• ISBN13: 9781698442297
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"