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Executing the Retarded: How to think about a new wedge issue.
Of the 38 states that allow the death penalty, some 15 exempt the mentally retarded from its reach, as does the federal government. Recently a group of retired American diplomats urged the Supreme Court to ban such executions generally, arguing that the absence of such a ban "will strain diplomatic relations with close American allies."
This is not a very interesting complaint. Even if we ban the death penalty for the mentally retarded, European leaders will still dislike us for having the death penalty at all (or a missile-defense system, or Big Macs, or the English language). And the opposition of some of these leaders to the death penalty ignores the fact that ...
- Justices to review death penalty for mentally retarded inmates.(The Dallas...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Curriden, Mark February 19, 2002 700+ words
...1974, 34 mentally retarded men have...according to the Death Penalty Resource...made the mentally retarded an exception to federal death penalty laws...exempt the mentally retarded from the death penalty, they did...
- Justices to review death penalty for mentally retarded inmates.
- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) February 19, 2002 700+ words
...1974, 34 mentally retarded men have...according to the Death Penalty Resource...made the mentally retarded an exception to federal death penalty laws...exempt the mentally retarded from the death penalty, they did...
- The demise of the death penalty for the mentally retarded.
- Magazine article from: Florida Bar Journal Fougerousse, Philip December 1, 2003 700+ words
...eliminating the death penalty for mentally retarded defendants. In...proceedings against mentally retarded defendants. Presumably...question whether the death penalty should ever be imposed on a mentally retarded criminal. The consensus...
- Justices give little clue to leaning on death penalty for mentally retarded.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) February 20, 2002 700+ words
...executing the mentally retarded, only two states that allowed the death penalty had enacted laws...that allow the death penalty ban the execution of the mentally retarded. When combined...that have no death penalty, Ellis noted...
- That's too much; Death penalty; More doubts on the death penalty.(United...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) December 2, 2000 700+ words
...lifted its death-penalty ban in 1976, 35 mentally retarded prisoners...executing the mentally retarded. According...Dieter of the Death Penalty Information...support the death penalty. If Mr Ellis...passed on mentally retarded prisoners...
- TO PROTECT MENTALLY RETARDED DEATH PENALTY LIMIT PROPOSED.(Local)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) February 22, 1989 700+ words
...s proposed death penalty, according to advocates for the mentally retarded. And saying...punishment for the mentally retarded constitutes...have joined with death penalty opponents to...preclude the death penalty once the jury...defendant is ...
- Supreme Court bans execution of mentally retarded.
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) June 20, 2002 700+ words
...abolished the death penalty for the mentally retarded. Eighteen...seeking the death penalty against the mentally retarded, but capital...will not free mentally retarded killers...spared the death penalty but still...
- Supreme Court bans execution of mentally retarded.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Mintz, Howard June 20, 2002 700+ words
...abolished the death penalty for the mentally retarded. Eighteen...seeking the death penalty against the mentally retarded, but capital...will not free mentally retarded killers...spared the death penalty but still...
Source: HighBeam Research, Executing the Retarded: How to think about a new wedge issue.