Mentally Retarded Criminals Should Face the Death Penalty

On June 26, 1989, the US Supreme Court insisted on death sentences of mentally disabled John Penry in the case of Penry v. Lynaugh (Chan 1211). The court also decided that the defendant who enforced mental retardation (Cook 869) did not violate the cruel and abnormal punishment provisions of the eighth amendment of the Federal Constitution. I agree very much with the ruling of the US Supreme Court. Those who are mentally condemned should not be exempt from the death penalty because of their delay.

"Some people think that it is not inappropriate to declare the death penalty for mentally ill people according to specific circumstances, others believe that men with mental disorders should not be sentenced to death." In certain circumstances In response, it is considered inappropriate to condemn the death penalty to the mentally handicapped, and other people think that should not impose a death penalty for mentally disabled people under any circumstances.

"People who are convicted of murder are thinking that they should not be executed if they are mentally retarded (or mental age from 5 to 10 years old). Other people Like Death Penalty What is close to your feelings is whether "late" people should be executed or should "late" be sentenced to death as other people? "Some people think that" spiritual "people should be sentenced to death as other people, but" late "people are not. Should the execution execution, or "boring" people be sentenced to death as any other person? "

The death penalty group says that the generosity of some of these cases suggests that the system can function by avoiding psychosis and criminals with mental retardation. However, many legal experts point out that the application of the death penalty is flawed, which has led to extensive injustice charges in the criminal justice system. Recent studies document long-standing assertions of racial discrimination in the death penalty. According to the statistics, if the victim is a white person rather than another race, it is more likely that the prisoners of all races will be executed. About half of the victims of homicide are colored people, but more than 80% of prisoners are convicted of murdering white people. 4 This year's survey also showed that blacks are the most likely to receive the death penalty, regardless of the race of the victims. Five