Spring 2004
The Future of Capital Punishment: Current Policies and New Debates
Learning Links and Readings
Mental Illness/Retardation
Capital
Cases: Why Mental Retardation is Mitigating by George S. Baroff. The Champion
(A publication of The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers), August 2, 1998.
Capital
Punishment on the 25th Anniversary of Furman v. Georgia: A Report by the
Southern Center for Human Rights by Stephen B. Bright. Southern Center for
Human Rights, June 26, 1997.
Includes sections about mental illness and retardation.
International
Perspectives on the Death Penalty: A Costly Isolation for the U.S. by Richard C.
Dieter. Death Penalty Information Center, October 1999.
Brief section covers mentally retarded and the death penalty.
Key Topics:
Execution of Persons with Mental Retardation. Amnesty International USA.
Provides statistical information.
Mental
Retardation and the Death Penalty. Death Penalty Information Center.
Provides statistical information.
Mentally Ill and
Juvenile Offender Alexander Williams Facing Execution in Georgia. ABA
Juvenile Justice Center.

