In the News Feature ‘Smart enough to die?’ (Nature 506, 284–286; 2014), it was the Virginia court system, not the US Supreme Court, that changed Daryl Atkins’s sentence to life imprisonment. The Supreme Court also did not mandate that rulings on intellectual disability in death-penalty cases should follow the standards of the American Association on Mental Retardation.
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Correction. Nature 507, 21 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/507021b
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