ISHEE, J., for the Court.
¶ 1. On February 2, 1982, following a trial in the Circuit Court of Lamar County, Mississippi, on a change of venue from Lawrence County, Howard Neal was convicted and sentenced to death for the January 25, 1981, capital murder of Amanda Joy Neal. Following the United States Supreme Court decision Atkins v. Virginia,
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