Essays Tagged: "retarded persons"
Minors and the Death Penalty
f those 22, 17 States allow the execution of offenders who committed capital crimes at 16. Mentally retarded persons can not be sentenced to death in any State.Toronto Patterson was 17 when he was arr ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
Accommodation options (Disabilities)
and residence (Amnesty International Website, 2001). The Declaration on the Rights of the Mentally Retarded Persons (1971) followed, which protects the rights of people with an intellectual disabilit ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays