US Supreme Court drops death penalty for mentally retarded murderers

Death penalty support for special offend

Death penalty support for special offender populations of legally convicted murderers: juveniles, the mentally retarded, and the mentally incompetent

✍ Denise Paquette Boots; Kathleen M. Heide; John K. Cochran 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 114 KB

## Abstract The U.S. Supreme Court recently re‐examined the constitutionality of the death penalty in the context of two of three special offender populations of murderers (juveniles, mentally retarded, and mentally incompetent). The Court reaffirmed the imposition of the death penalty for juvenile