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This U.S. Supreme Court case tackled the following question: Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit a state from disregarding the current medical definition of intellectual disability, and instead using an earlier medical definition, when determining whether a person is eligible for the death penalty?
It was decided on March 28, 2017.
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