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Alexandra Becnel published an article in the University of Baltimore Law Review called, “Eroding Atkins v. Virginia: How the Courts Are Allowing Persons with Intellectual Disabilities to Be Sentenced to Death.” The article, about how the Supreme Court undermined what should have been a bright-line rule in Atkins because of ambiguity over how to define intellectual disability, tracks the case of Danny Hill, an intellectually disabled man currently on Ohio’s death row for a 1986 murder conviction.