America also allows the execution of mental defectives Bill Clinton once broke off campaigning to allow just that to happen in Arkansas and people under 18 at the time they committed the crime.

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That is the sort of moral immunity we normally extend to persons who lack the capacity to understand either the consequences of their actions or the difference between right and wrong: very young children, extreme mental defectives and, more controversially, the severely mentally ill.

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