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Book cover of Mental Disability and the Death Penalty

Mental Disability and the Death Penalty

The Shame of the States

by Michael L. Perlin, New York Law School
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013

There is no question that the death penalty is disproportionately imposed in cases involving defendants with mental disabilities. There is clear, systemic bias at all stages of the prosecution and the sentencing process – in determining who is competent to be executed, in the assessment of mitigation...
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