Dr. Kevin McGrew, visiting Professor in the School Psychology program within the Department of Educational Psychology, has authored two chapters that are set to be published in a forthcoming book this spring regarding intellectual disability and death penalty cases.

The Death Penalty and Intellectual Disability: A Guide is a special manual that provides guidance for standards for the identification of intellectual disability in death penalty cases. The guide stems from the Supreme Court of the United States case Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 in which executing intellectually disabled individuals violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishments. This text goes well beyond the official 2010 “green book” manual by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD).

McGrew authors the chapters on “Intellectual Functioning: Conceptual Issues” and “Norm Obsolescence: The Flynn Effect”.