Research Catalog

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Description

1. [xxii], 291 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Subject

1. Capital punishment > United States
2. Offenders with mental disabilities > United States
3. Capital punishment
4. Capital Punishment
5. Persons with Mental Disabilities
6. Criminals
7. Capital punishment
8. Offenders with mental disabilities
9. Todesstrafe
10. Geistige Behinderung
11. United States
12. USA

Contents

1. I. The Penry case -- Introduction -- The facts -- The decision -- What it means -- Notes -- II. Theoretical arguments against the death penalty for offenders with mental retardation -- Introduction -- Culpability and the per se definition argument -- The disporportionality argument -- The anti-deterrence argument -- The anti-retribution argument -- The societal consensus argument -- Argument from authority -- Overrepresentation or statistical argument -- Anti-mitigation argument -- Beyond mitigation : the anti-child -- Anti-right-from-wrong argument -- Anti-multiple claims argument -- Mainstreaming, individualism and the "right to execution" -- Anti-Georgia argument -- Summation : the mega-argument -- III. A death row dozen -- Introduction -- The executed -- Summary -- New dimensions in defense -- Notes -- IV. Survivors -- Introduction -- The spared -- Summary -- Notes -- V. Who dies? characteristics of the pardoned and the executed -- The "3-D's" of death penalty sentencing -- Sentence outcome -- Offender characteristics -- Circumstances of the crime -- Victim characteristics -- Summary -- Notes -- VI. Legislative initiatives to abolish the death penalty for offenders with mental retardation -- Introduction -- Georgia story -- The federal anti-drug abuse act of 1988 -- Other state statutes -- Legislation pending in the states -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Index.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-268) and index.