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	Mental retardation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One common criterion for diagnosis of mental retardation is a tested intelligence quotient (IQ) of 70 or below.
		People with mental retardation are people who are usually described as having developmental disabilities.
		The term "mental retardation" has acquired pejorative and shameful connotations over the last few decades and is now used almost exclusively in technical or scientific contexts where exactness is necessary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Retarded (1855 words)

	COMPLEX ISSUES ABOUT MENTALLY RETARDED DEFENDANTS
		The American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) (2002) defines mental retardation as a disability, which is characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior or skills prior to age 18.
		Regardless of the type of criminal charges, mentally retarded sex defendants were indistinguishable from other retarded defendants in terms of mental retardation, deficit in adaptive behavior, or IQ score.
		Furthermore, the coexistence of mental illness and mental retardation (dual diagnosis), a condition that may significantly complicate treatment to possibly restore their competency to stand trial, is frequently present among mentally retarded offenders.
	www.iejs.com /Mental_Health/mentally_retarded_defendants.htm (2297 words)

	Texas Governor Vetoes Ban on Executing Retarded
		Mentally retarded killers also are exempted from execution in the federal justice system.
		Under the vetoed bill, if jurors determined that a convicted killer was mentally retarded, the defendant would have been sentenced to life in prison.
		The decision came in the case of Johnny Paul Penry, sentenced to death in Texas for the 1979 murder of Pamela Moseley Carpenter, younger sister of former Washington Redskins kicker Mark Moseley.
	www.soc.umn.edu /~samaha/cases/death_retarded_veto.htm (668 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Court Bars Execution Of Mentally Retarded
		The Supreme Court yesterday abolished the execution of mentally retarded offenders, imposing one of the most significant restrictions on who can be given the death penalty since the court permitted states to resume capital punishment in 1976.
		Profound mental retardation, a condition so debilitating that the court has previously said it would disqualify someone from execution, was not at issue in the case.
		Yet except for citing the broad definitions of mild mental retardation, the majority said it would be up to the states to develop precise standards and procedures for determining who should qualify for the new exemption from execution.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A16760-2002Jun20?language=printer (1058 words)

	Fight the Death penalty in the USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rector was so retarded, and so misunderstood the nature of his punishment, that he told his lawyers as he left his cell for the death chamber that he was saving the dessert -- a slice of pecan pie -- from his final meal to eat before bed that night.
		Opponents of executing the retarded often cite the case of 32-year-old Morris Mason, who was put to death in Virginia in 1985 for killing a 72-year-old woman.
		Besides mental retardation, he was found to have fetal alcohol syndrome as a result of his mother's heavy drinking.
	www.fdp.dk /uk/ment.htm (7373 words)

	Executing the Mentally Retarded Even as Laws Begin to Shift
		What they contend is that the mentally retarded should not be considered so morally culpable that they deserve the ultimate punishment, which is supposed to be reserved for the most culpable criminals who commit the most heinous crimes.
		The test for whether a defendant is mentally retarded is not the same test used to determine whether a defendant is insane and therefore not guilty by reason of insanity.
		One reason for the lack of precise data about the number of mentally retarded inmates on death row is that the mentally retarded themselves struggle to hide their disability, even though in many cases it is the one thing that might save them from execution.
	www.deathpenaltyinfo.org /article.php?scid=17&did=439 (2589 words)

	State: Judges, lawyers debate ban on executing retarded
		Under draft rules proposed by the high court justices, the question of whether defendants are mentally retarded would not be settled until after they are convicted and a jury has recommended the death sentence.
		Although retardation is generally defined as having an IQ of 70 or lower, the U.S. Supreme Court left it to states to develop their own systems to ensure that mentally retarded people are not executed.
		Eaton also argued that retardation should be established by a "preponderance of the evidence" rather than the more challenging "clear and convincing" standard as is called for by the state law and the proposed rules.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/08/26/news_pf/State/Judges__lawyers_debat.shtml (480 words)

	Youth with Special Needs - Mental Retardation
		According to the American Association on Mental Deficiency, mental retardation is defined as subaverage general intellectual functioning that originates during the developmental period (prenatal to 16 years) and is associated with impairment in adaptive behavior.
		Those who are mildly retarded are able to learn so much that, as adults, some are no longer identified as being retarded.
		A mentally retarded person is slow to learn and may be slow or limited in the development of physical skills.
	www.urbanext.uiuc.edu /specialneeds/mental.html (657 words)

	Supreme Court bans executions of mentally retarded murderers - @forums
		The 6-3 ruling is confined to mentally retarded defendants convicted of murder and does not address the constitutionality of capital punishment in general.
		Many mentally retarded defendants know right from wrong, but they are more likely to act on impulse or to be swayed by others in a group, Stevens wrote.
		I'm sure all the retarded people we executed in texas while they were making their minds up about this will be happy to hear the news.
	www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=138373 (1528 words)

	Flashback: James Q. Wilson on Death Penalty & Mentally Retarded on National Review Online
		Depending on the state, you can be called retarded on the basis of an IQ test, or the judgment of experts, or some combination of the two.
		Connecticut law, for example, defines retardation as "a significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning," and this means doing poorly on "one or more of the individually administered general intelligence tests." Now, if you wish to be considered retarded, your first task is to do poorly on this test.
		When the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1989 a case involving a mentally retarded convict, it ruled, 5 to 4, that the defendant, one Johnny Paul Penry, had in fact been found competent to stand trial and that he clearly understood that it was wrong to have killed his victim.
	www.nationalreview.com /flashback/flashback-wilson062102.asp (2243 words)

	WJLA - Mentally Retarded Man's Fate With Jury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		An IQ of 70 or less is required to be considered mentally retarded in Virginia, which also takes into account social skills and the ability to care for oneself.
		That presents a challenge for the defense, which must prove Atkins is retarded, because his IQ was not tested as a youth.
		The high court left it to states to determine which death row inmates are retarded, and states have disagreed over where to draw the line.
	www.wjla.com /headlines/0705/246145.html (752 words)

	Retarded Person Overcomes Adversity To Become NBA Referee
		Cuban referred specifically to a call in which forward Dirk Nowitzki was hammered by the Clippers’ Bobby Simmons en route to the basket and Downs, standing close by, refused to blow his whistle.
		Witnesses said that the foul was so obvious only a blind man or a retarded person could miss it.
		Despite a glut of evidence to the contrary, NBA supervisor of officials Ed Banks insisted today that none of the referees are retarded.
	www.thebrushback.com /Archives/retardedperson_full.htm (814 words)

	CNN.com - Conflicts arise over rights of pregnant retarded woman and fetus - Aug. 29, 2003
		The fetus is believed to be the result of the rape of a severely retarded 22-year-old woman, who police say has the mental capacity of a 1-year-old.
		The fact that the pro-life Jeb Bush selects a retarded woman as a target for adversarial fetal protection law thus has disturbing implications for the value a pro-life society might place on its most vulnerable members.
		Indeed, were it not for her disability, J.D.S. might not have been selected by a rapist who anticipated that his crime would go undetected if committed against a woman could not speak or complain about the outrage committed against her.
	www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/08/29/findlaw.analysis.colb.fetus (1594 words)

	Pennsylvania Assn. For Retarded Children v. Pennsylvania
		Defendants may deny or withdraw payments of tuition or tuition and maintenance whenever the school district or intermediate unit in which a mentally retarded child resides provides a program of special education and training appropriate to the child's learning capacities into which the child may be placed.
		Every retarded person between the ages of six and twenty-one years as of the date of this Order and thereafter shall be provided access to a free public program of education and training appropriate to his capacities as soon as possible but in no event later than September 1, 1972.
		To implement the aforementioned relief and to assure that it is extended to all members of the class entitled to it, Dr. Herbert Goldstein and Dennis E. Haggerty, Esquire are appointed Masters for the purpose of overseeing a process of identification, evaluation, notification, and compliance hereinafter described.
	www.tourolaw.edu /patch/Parc (2538 words)

	Moron (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was also once applied to people with an IQ of 51-70 and was a step up from "imbecile" (IQ of 26-50) and two steps up from "idiot" (IQ of 0-25).
		The word moron, along with "retarded" and "feeble-minded" (among others), was once considered a valid descriptor in the psychological community, though these words have all now passed into common slang use, exclusively in a detrimental context.
		In his later years, Goddard recanted all his previous writings, but they had already been translated and published, including in German.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moron_(psychology) (179 words)

	CNN.com - Courts consider Texas death row retardation claims - Feb. 16, 2004
		The high court's ruling in June 2002 protected the severely mentally retarded, and most states have followed nationally accepted guidelines that define retardation as significantly below-average intellect combined with low "adaptive" skills at such things as communicating and taking care of oneself.
		But when drawing the line between inmates with low intelligence and those who are retarded, states have disagreed, making it easier to get off death row in some states and harder in others.
		Lawmakers in Texas tried to address the issue last year but couldn't agree on whether retardation should be determined before or after the guilty phase of a trial.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/02/16/deathrow.retardation/index.html (510 words)

	CNN.com - Supreme Court bars executing mentally retarded - June 25, 2002
		WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday that executions of mentally retarded criminals are "cruel and unusual punishment," violating the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.
		The ruling is a victory for opponents of the death penalty, and spares the life of convicted killer Daryl Renard Atkins, who was scheduled to be executed in Virginia.
		In the future, the ruling will mean that people arrested for a killing will not face a potential death sentence if they can show they are retarded, generally defined as having an IQ of 70 or lower, the AP reported.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/06/20/scotus.executions (636 words)

	NCPA - Crime And Gun Control - States Are Divided On Executing The Mentally Retarded (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Although the death penalty has widespread public support in the U.S., the issue of whether mentally retarded persons who commit capital crimes should be sentenced to death is more controversial.
		Of the 38 states that permit capital punishment, 13 have laws that prohibit the execution of someone who is mentally retarded.
		In the U.S., 34 people who were known to be mentally retarded have been executed since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
	www.ncpa.org /pi/crime/pd080800e.html (253 words)

	Who determines if a convict is mentally retarded? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pennsylvania legislators are now puzzling over a bill on the sensitive and complicated task of what to do with defendants who are mentally retarded, or who say they were at the time of a killing.
		State Rep. Douglas Reichley, R-Lehigh, said lawmakers must distinguish between defendants who are "truly retarded" as opposed to those who are "newly retarded," meaning defendants who claim to be retarded as a way of getting life in prison rather than the death penalty after being convicted of murder.
		The committee's bill also was criticized by several groups that represent retarded citizens, including ARC of Pennsylvania, which thinks a judge should decide on retardation before a trial is held.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04138/317469.stm (843 words)

	Retarded ejaculation (Delayed ejaculation)
		The terms 'delayed ejaculation’ (DE) and 'retarded ejaculation' (RE) mean inability of the man to reach a climax.
		They are outside the scope of this article, but it is worth noting that men who have this type of injury can produce an ejaculation, and can therefore father children, by means of electrical stimulation of the prostate area (‘electro-ejaculation’).
		Retarded ejaculation is a frustrating and trying condition for both partners.
	www.netdoctor.co.uk /sex_relationships/facts/ejaculatoryincompetence.htm (1173 words)

	Action Alert: Texas Set to Execute Retarded Man - TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Thursday called on Gov. Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to commute the death sentence of James Clark, a mentally retarded man scheduled to be executed April 27.
		Yesterday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals vacated the death sentence of another retarded prisoner, Willie Mack Modden.
		It also vacated the death sentence of Kenneth Vodochodks, a prisoner for whom the Court found the evidence insufficient that he aided the triggerman.
	talkleft.com /new_archives/006168.html (316 words)

	CNN.com - Texas moves to ban execution of mentally retarded offenders - May 26, 2001
		He was executed August 9, 2000 for the 1988 rape and murder of a woman.
		Currently 14 states forbid execution of the mentally retarded.
		The Texas measure would impose a life sentence on mentally retarded defendants found guilty of capital crimes.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/LAW/05/26/texas.execution/index.html (300 words)

	Retarded: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Wiping the sweat from their brows and the snot from their noses, Retarded takes their first step into the punk world on their eponymous debut.
		They won't win points for originality, but they don't really sound like they care, bashing away at some catchy three-chord anthems with little concern for anything besides rocking.
		Wiping the sweat from their brows and the snot from their noses, Retarded [+] takes their first step into the punk world on their eponymous debut.
	www.music.com /release/retarded/2 (297 words)

	Retarded fields
		Expansion of the retarded quantities in the near field region yields
		(546), the first term on the right-hand side corresponds to Coulomb's law, the second term is the correction due to retardation effects, and the third term corresponds to Faraday induction.
		(547), the first term on the right-hand side is the Biot-Savart law, and the second term is the correction due to retardation effects.
	farside.ph.utexas.edu /teaching/em/lectures/node52.html (522 words)

	IGN Boards - Is IGN retarded??
		Of course they're retarded, that reviewer has been getting bashed all over the internet (not just in here) and IGN was retarded for letting some brainless Star Wars hater review this awesome game.
		Do your self a favor, buy jedi knight two for the pc, pay a hell of a lot less, play a hell of a lot longer, and be much more entertained with a way better jedi fighting game.
		IGN is not retarded, only Ivan Sulic (the biased star wars hater who wrote the review) is. But of course if IGN keeps him around after this then my opinion of IGN might change as well.
	boards.ign.com /Message.aspx?brd=7037&topic=86700325&page=1 (1185 words)

	Retarded Animal Babies
		RETARDED ANIMAL BABIES 3 - It is show and tell day, and boy do they have some things to show!
		RETARDED ANIMAL BABIES 12 - A fine, red-headed Irish adventure for you today, lads and lasses.
		RETARDED ANIMAL BABIES 15 - Celebrate the third birthday of the RABs as they look back over their lives.
	www.newgrounds.com /collection/retardedanimalbabies.html (278 words)

	Urban Dictionary: retarded
		retarded 2 sounds stupid dumb gay retard idiot lame annoying moron crazy idiotic slow tard dumbass ugly emo ignorant drunk fag crap hyphy loser shit fucked up funny moronic ridiculous mental asshole bad fat homosexual silly ass cool fucking homo fuck fucktard high queer special weird insane smart useless wasted whore awesome bitch boring
		There are literally a thousand different uses for the slang version of "retarded" - (Quick note:) Usage-wise, it came before and set the precedence of the way we use "gay" in slang today - used correctly, they're practically interchangable.
		The embalming fluid retarded the decomposition of the corpse.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=retarded (381 words)

	WJLA - Jurors: Death Row Inmate Not Retarded (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A jury concluded Friday that a death row inmate whose case led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling is not mentally retarded, clearing the way for his execution later this year.Jurors deliberated 13 hours over two days before finding Daryl Atkins not to be mentally retarded.
		The Supreme Court ruled in Atkins' case three years ago that executing the mentally retarded is unconstitutional.
		If the jury had deemed Atkins retarded, he would have been spared execution and instead sentenced to life in prison for the robbery and slaying of an Air Force enlisted man.
	www.wjla.com /headlines/0805/249678.html (238 words)

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