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Mental retardation as a mitigating factor ? mental retardation constitutionally barring execution.
These are 2 different issues, the unanimous Supreme Court said today. And Justice Ginsburg, the author of the opinion, schools the Sixth Circuit in the law of issue preclusion:[M]ental retardation for purposes of Atkins, and mental retardation as one mitigator to be weighed against aggravators, are discrete issues...

Mental Retardation Raised in 2003 Case
The Amarillo Globe-News reports, "Death penalty decried." An Amarillo man convicted in the 2003 shooting deaths of three people should be spared the death penalty because he is mentally retarded, his new attorneys say in court papers...

Daniel Plata Determined to Have Mental Retardation
Yesterday, the Court of Criminal Appeals struck Daniel Plata's death sentence after determining that he has mental retardation...

Scheduled Execution - Mental Retardation at Issue
Texas is scheduled to execute Bobby Woods tonight in Huntsville. It would be the state's 13th execution this year, the 418th Texas execution since 1982...

Mental Retardation Issue at Supreme Court - Bobby v. Bies
"High court to hear death case," is Malia Rulon's report in today's Cincinnati Enquirer. A case that began with a child's brutal murder in the basement of an abandoned Price Hill building goes to the U...

Pennsylvania Legislation Calls for Pre-Trial Mental Retardation Determination
The AP report, "News from the Pennsylvania General Assembly," via Philly.com, contains: The Senate voted 45-2 to approve a bill that would establish a pretrial process to determine whether a defendant potentially facing the death penalty is mentally retarded...

Is it posible to succeed in sueing someone (or company) for giving you the idea to use illegal drugs in order to enhance physical or mental ability (then of course suffering imperable damages to health without any of the
I am not sure, but I think it depends if you have proof, or not. :)...