Reply With QuoteTexicans seem to love the D.P.
IMO. That's also retarded. (just stating my opinion folks not interested in a flame war)
Regards
Texas set to execute death row inmate diagnosed as 'mentally retarded'
Texas set to execute death row inmate diagnosed as 'mentally retarded'
Marvin Wilson's planned execution draws spotlight on state's lack of accepted standard for who qualifies as mentally disabled
Barring intervention from the US supreme court, Wilson will be executed in the state's death chamber on Tuesday.
A death row prisoner who has been medically diagnosed as "mentally retarded" and therefore exempt from execution is set to die on Tuesday in Texas, a state that rejects scientific consensus and instead applies its own definition of learning difficulties based on a character in a John Steinbeck novel.
Barring a last minute intervention by the courts, Marvin Wilson, 54, will be put to death by lethal injection even though he has been subjected to scientifically-recognised tests that show him to be intellectually disabled – or "mentally retarded" as the US legal system still calls the condition.
In 2002, the US supreme court banned executions for all such prisoners under the Eighth Amendment of the constitution that prohibits excessive punishment. The 2002 ban, in Atkins v Virginia, is categorical: individuals with mental retardation cannot be put to death. The court allowed some discretion on the part of individual states to devise procedures for administering the injunction, but no right to ignore it.
Texas took that discretion to mean – wrongly in the view of many lawyers and mental health experts – that it could set its own definition of retardation.
Marvin Wilson was put on death row for the 1992 murder of a police drug informant in Beaumont, Texas. The circumstances of the crime had all elements that make death sentences for people with learning difficulties problematic: Wilson was one of two perpetrators, leaving him vulnerable to his more sophisticated accomplice, and the main witness against him was that accomplice's wife who claimed she heard him confess to pulling the trigger.[...]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...tally-retarded
Last edited by Lov3ll; 08-07-2012 at 03:52 PM.
Texicans seem to love the D.P.
IMO. That's also retarded. (just stating my opinion folks not interested in a flame war)
Regards
The law only requires that you know the difference between right and wrong. Mental retardation varies greatly in degree from mild to severe. I do not think that the mild version should offer any legal protection or mitigation in sentencing.
Indeed we do. A large majority do at any rate. Although, am not to supportive of this one based upon the mental capacity as stated in the article.Originally Posted by Arfah
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No sir, we do not love the death penalty and the opinion piece presented by the OP is a ski slope.
Hell, I love the death penalty. You go around killing and your gonna get killed. Pretty simple and flame on bitches!
Sit down Sherm ( while I connect the chair to the mains)
So, you'd rather have someone suffer in prison for untold years at the mercy of some other "Bubba" inmates that could inflict even more pain and suffering on the scumbag murderers? I'd be all over that if it didn't cost too much to keep them and there wasn't ever a possibility of them getting out. No offense but frankly I think your opinion is retarded. JMO BTW
I wish we had the ability to inflict copious amounts of electricity on some of the retards around here.
Did I say that out loud?
Looks likes texas is fine with giving 7 year olds the chair.
Are you using the "retarded" defense in your situation?
Mental age > physical age
Yes, that does seem true.
Too bad "ol sparky" was decommisioned up in Huntsville. But I supose justice will still be served, if only through an injection....two hours ago, lol.
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