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United States of America: The Execution of Mentally Ill Offenders: Summary Report and Entire Report; USA: The Execution of Mentally Ill Offenders
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United States of America: The Execution of Mentally Ill Offenders: Summary Report and Entire Report; USA: The Execution of Mentally Ill Offenders
Publication year:
2006
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The deeply flawed practice of executing mentally ill offenders in the U.S. is examined. This report discusses: a gap in the "evolving standards of decency" (an overview); existing protections are clearly not enough; insane in most peoples books yet executed; "guilty but mentally ill" and sentenced to die; finality at the expense of fairness; in denial -- burying societys mistakes; subjective opinion and inexact science in an adversarial system; easy prey for unscrupulous police and prosecutors; poor witnesses on their own behalf; drugged defendants; racial, cross-cultural, and cumulative aspects in a broken system; competence to stand trial, waive counsel, plead guilty, or waive appeals; a roll call of shame -- time for majority judicial intervention; curing to kill-masking insanity with medication; unethical -- psychiatric testimony used to kill; recommendations; and an illustrative list of 100 executed mentally ill prisoners.