Mental Disability and the Death Penalty

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Mental Disability and the Death Penalty

Author	: Michael L. Perlin
File Size	: 44,7 Mb
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Language	: English
Release Date	: 02 June 2024
ISBN	: 9781442200562
Pages	: 295 pages

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Mental Disability and the Death Penalty by Michael L. Perlin Book PDF Summary

Michael Perlin shows how the administration of the death penalty deprives persons with mental disabilities of their constitutional rights, and how trial courts and prosecutors consciously flaunt the law. Using real life examples, he brings this often overlooked situation to light and calls for immediate change.

Mental Disability and the Death Penalty by Michael L. Perlin

There is no question that the death penalty is disproportionately imposed in cases involving defendants with mental disabilities. There is clear, systemic bias at all stages of the prosecution and the sentencing process – in determining who is competent to be executed, in the assessment of mitigation evidence, in the ways

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The Death Penalty and Intellectual Disability by Edward A. Polloway

Download or read online The Death Penalty and Intellectual Disability written by Edward A. Polloway, published by Unknown which was released on 2013-08-01. Get The Death Penalty and Intellectual Disability Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle.

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Mental Disability and the Death Penalty by Michael L. Perlin

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Beyond Reason by Human Rights Watch (Organization)

"Beyond Reason: The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation" is a March 2001 document of Human Rights Watch that focuses on the execution of people with mental retardation in the United States. Human Rights Watch notes that 25 U.S. states permit capital punishment for offenders who are mentally retarded. The

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Intellectual Disability and the Death Penalty by Marc J. Tassé Ph.D.,John H. Blume JD, MAR

Written by two nationally recognized experts, this book provides a comprehensive review of the legal and clinical aspects of the death penalty as it relates to intellectual disability. First, the facts: people with intellectual disability may falsely confess to a crime because they want to please the authorities, and they

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A Descending Spiral by Marc Bookman

Powerful, wry essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty abolitionists As Ruth Bader Ginsburg has noted, people who are well represented at trial rarely get the death penalty. But as Marc Bookman shows in a dozen brilliant essays, the problems

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Executing the Mentally Ill by Kent S. Miller,Michael L. Radelet

This book is an excellent primer on a subject that Americans are likely to debate for the foreseeable future. --Bimonthly Review of Law Books Unlike every other western democracy in the world, capital punishment is an active part of the criminal justice system in the United States. By the end

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Beyond Reason by Anonim

This report examines the recent history of capital punishment of mentally retarded offenders in the United States. Execution is still permitted in 25 US states and that at least 35 such offenders have been executed since 1976. The report includes case studies of sixteen mentally retarded offenders.

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