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Dec. 11 USA: Unfit for Execution To the Editor: You correctly note that the State of Georgia, by forcing capital defendants to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they are mentally retarded, has eviscerated the Supreme Court’s ruling in Atkins v. Virginia, which held that the

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Dec. 11 BELARUS: Belarus death-row bomber appeals for clemency Vladislav Kovalyov, 1 of the 2 men sentenced to death in Belarus for bombing a metro station in the capital, Minsk, has appealed to President Alexander Lukashenko for clemency. “In the appeal, he wrote he was not guilty