Mental retardation and the death penalty: The clinical and legal legacy

Federal Probation

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 16-20

  French, Laurence Armand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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