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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank

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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (2186)1/22/2001 1:35:25 PM
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<<The death penalty was abolished in the U.K. after a highly publicized case where it was obvious after the fact that a mentally deficient person had been executed wrongly.>>

It is not known how many of the 3,600 death row inmates in the United States are mentally retarded, but experts say it is about 10 percent, said James Ellis, a leading expert on mental retardation and the death penalty, and a professor at the University of New Mexico law school. .

That estimate doesn't count the insane on death row, of course; only the mentally retarded.

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