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Indiana Supreme Court death sentence case of mentally ill

By Chuck Kallendorf

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Indiana?s Supreme Court Tuesday upheld that state?s death penalty for a mentally ill man convicted in 1997 of abduction, rape, and murder. (Article)(Opinion)

Citing Matheney v. State and Baird v. State, both 2005 cases, a majority of the justices disagreed that ?a person who is mentally ill suffers from the same ?diminished capacities? as a person who is mentally retarded,? referencing Indiana Code § 35-36-2-5 and § 35-50-2-9(a), both just recently amended.

Full post as published by Cincinnati Law Library Blog on November 29, 2007 (boomark / email).

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