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Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities
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February 1989

 

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
CRIMINAL JUSTICE SECTION
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES SECTION

RECOMMENDATION

Be it Resolved, That the American Bar Association urges that no person with mental retardation, as defined by the American Association on Mental Retardation, should be sentenced to death or executed; and

Be it Further Resolved, That the American Bar Association supports enactment of legislation barring the execution of defendants with mental retardation.

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