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By Kristin Houle

ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education presents...Mental Illness and the Death Penalty: New Hope for Those Threatened with Execution A 90-Minute Teleconference and Live Audio WebcastTuesday, June 3, 20081-2:30 PM EDT (Noon-1:30 PM CDT11 AM-12:30 PM MDT 10-11:30 AM PDT)The American Bar Association has adopted ground-breaking policies that it believes should apply to the consideration of mental illness in the context of the death penalty. This panel will address circumstances under which defendants with serious mental disabilities should not be executed.Dorean Koenig will address under what circumstances a severely mentally ill defendant should be exempt from the death penalty, and discuss when a death row inmate is too incompetent to waive appeals, assist counsel, or be executed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Prevention Not Punishment on May 14, 2008 (boomark / email).