The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation
Twenty-five U.S. states still permit the execution of offenders with mental retardation and should pass laws to ban the practice without delay. The United States appears to be the only democracy whose laws expressly permit the execution of persons with this severe mental disability.
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ISBN: G1301
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- Beyond Reason:
- I. SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- II. Mental Retardation: An Overview
- III. Capital Punishment and Mental Retardation: Legal Standards
- IV. The Miscarriage of Justice: Mental Retardation and Capital Trials
- V. Mental Retardation and Criminal Culpability
- VI. Mental Retardation and the Individualized Determination of Punishment
- VII. Mental Retardation and the Purposes of Capital Punishment
- VIII. Defendants with Mental Retardation: Their Stories
- IX. Acknowledgments