If Mr Ellis's bill passes, it will commute all death sentences already passed on mentally retarded prisoners.
According to one opinion poll, although 81% of Texans support capital punishment, 73% oppose the execution of the mentally retarded.
Q. tests are used to diagnose people as mentally retarded, with a score of 70 generally taken to be the cutoff.
New Scientist reports that although men are more likely to be mentally retarded, they are also more likely to be geniuses.
An Iraqi police chief said the perpetrators were mentally retarded and that their explosives had been set off by remote control.
In Florida, both Governor Jeb Bush and the chairman of the state's Republican Party have come out against executing the mentally retarded.
D. in sports psychology from the University of Connecticut and started his career working with mentally retarded children, teaching them sports skills.
Dr. KNORR: The insane and the demented and mentally retarded have to be held accountable for what they do in their life.
He also operates two schools--one in Amethi, with Congress Party head Sonia Gandhi's son, Rahul, and the other in New Delhi--for mentally retarded children from poor families.
First of all, why was she so drawn to the Special Olympics, as opposed to any of the other vehicles for helping the mentally retarded that came along?
Others were first called learning-disabled, mentally retarded or mentally ill.
Untreated, toddlers short of the hormones can become mentally retarded.
School proved challenging for the burgeoning businessman, perhaps for lack of adequate encouragement: A teacher once told his mother he was mentally retarded and may never have the ability to read.
Q.s of the schoolchildren of 1900 at around 70, which is to suggest, bizarrely, that a century ago the United States was populated largely by people who today would be considered mentally retarded.
It was this quality of populism that led Eunice to the core of her vision of the Special Olympics-that through sports not only do we help the mentally retarded, but they also help us.
In contrast, other, nicer findings that I had posted in the past, which people did want to believe, never led to outcries of bad methodology and mentally retarded academics and, in fact, were often eagerly retweeted.
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But Mr Nokes's Jane is more cynical and cruel than is credible: he seems almost to blame her for the banishment of her mentally retarded brother, though it happened before she was born and she never knew him.
"Despite all the signs of Mr. Wilson's intellectual disabilities and the diagnosis of the court-appointed neuropsychologist, the District Court of Jefferson County (Texas) concluded that Mr. Wilson is not mentally retarded, " the ACLU posting said, with "not" italicized for emphasis.
It marks the first time a witness has come forward publicly with information about the shooting of Ronald Madison, a 40-year-old mentally retarded man whose death has sparked a police investigation and a grand jury probe into what happened in and around the Danziger Bridge that day.
Their clients tend to be retarded or mentally ill and were addicted to drugs, homeless or abused as children.
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