In Atkins v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
A) imposing the death penalty on mentally retarded murders constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
B) whipping prison inmates constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
C) teachers paddling public school students with wooden broads did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
D) the accidental shooting death of an inmate did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
E) federal sentencing guidelines were unconstitutional.
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