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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (2186)	1/22/2001 1:15:58 PM
From: E	Respond to of 82486

There are mentally deficient prisoners on death row here. Mentally ill or border line retarded. No one seems that upset over it. Bill Clinton, during the campaign, returned to Arkansas to oversee the execution of Ricky Ray Rector. He's the guy who killed two policemen and then attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head. He was so mentally deficient he saved the dessert from his last meal to eat after he was executed. This act got Clinton votes, of course. Politicians are so happy to have the death penalty issue. Give them circuses.

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (2186)	1/22/2001 1:29:02 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Jeb Bush in Florida has said that "people with clear mental retardation should not be executed," but his brother, George W., opposed laws that would prohibit the execution of the mentally retarded. One of George W. Bush's first acts as governor of Texas, in January 1995, was to reject a request for clemency for Mario Marquez, who suffered from severe brain damage and had an I.Q. of 60 and the skills of a 7-year-old. Mr. Marquez was executed on the evening of Mr. Bush's inauguration for the murder of his niece. "I want to be God's gardener and take care of the animals," Mr. Marquez told his lawyer, Robert McGlasson, a few hours before being strapped on to the gurney. deathpenaltyinfo.org

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (2186)	1/22/2001 1:35:25 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

<<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. deathpenaltyinfo.org