NATIONAL BRIEFING / VIRGINIA
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A death row inmate whose case led to the national ban on executing the mentally disabled will spend life in prison because prosecutors withheld evidence in his 1998 trial, the state Supreme Court ruled in Richmond. In a 5-2 decision, the justices upheld the commutation of Daryl Atkins’ sentence to life without parole.
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