Sometimes it takes an outrageous comment from a foreign leader to remind Americans of how advanced our capacity for empathy has become. To many in the West, it may come as a surprise that Iranian ...

Momentum is growing across the country to reexamine the way mentally retarded people are treated by the criminal justice system. Citing a growing national consensus, the U.S. Supreme Court recently ...

With effort, Johnny Ray Anderson could figure out that one plus one was two. Two plus two, however, was beyond him. When pressed, he guessed the answer was, once again, two. He could not read or write ...

WHEN HE declared to a group of foreign reporters before leaving for Europe, "We should never execute anybody who is mentally retarded," President Bush was articulating what ought to be a self-evident ...

WASHINGTON--In a case whose outcome could affect death row inmates across the nation, the United States Supreme Court today will consider whether executions of people with mental retardation violates ...

Nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court banned execution of the mentally retarded, Texas officials have no idea how many of the 449 convicts on death row have the disability and no system in place ...

THIRTEEN YEARS ago, the Supreme Court ruled that it was permissible for states to execute retarded people. Yesterday it changed its mind and held that the Eighth Amendment's ban on "cruel and unusual ...

GERD in mentally disabled individuals is documented frequently and may have serious consequences for the quality of life. Therefore it is very important that GERD is diagnosed and treated properly. In ...

The 6-3 decision, which reverses an earlier court opinion, addressed only capital punishment applied to the mentally handicapped, not executions in general. When the high court declared executing ...

My only child is a little girl of nine. She is tall for her age and extraordinarily pretty, with large dark eyes that sometimes seem to look right through you. So attractive is she that people have ...

Table 2 contains an overview of the main methodological characteristics of the nineteen included studies. This paragraph describes the setting and data collection, the research group, the reference ...