If Mr Ellis's bill passes, it will commute all death sentences already passed on mentally retarded prisoners.
According to one opinion poll, although 81% of Texans support capital punishment, 73% oppose the execution of the mentally retarded.
Q. tests are used to diagnose people as mentally retarded, with a score of 70 generally taken to be the cutoff.
In Florida, both Governor Jeb Bush and the chairman of the state's Republican Party have come out against executing the mentally retarded.
D. in sports psychology from the University of Connecticut and started his career working with mentally retarded children, teaching them sports skills.
Others were first called learning-disabled, mentally retarded or mentally ill.
Untreated, toddlers short of the hormones can become mentally retarded.
School proved challenging for the burgeoning businessman, perhaps for lack of adequate encouragement: A teacher once told his mother he was mentally retarded and may never have the ability to read.
It was this quality of populism that led Eunice to the core of her vision of the Special Olympics-that through sports not only do we help the mentally retarded, but they also help us.
But Mr Nokes's Jane is more cynical and cruel than is credible: he seems almost to blame her for the banishment of her mentally retarded brother, though it happened before she was born and she never knew him.
"Despite all the signs of Mr. Wilson's intellectual disabilities and the diagnosis of the court-appointed neuropsychologist, the District Court of Jefferson County (Texas) concluded that Mr. Wilson is not mentally retarded, " the ACLU posting said, with "not" italicized for emphasis.
It marks the first time a witness has come forward publicly with information about the shooting of Ronald Madison, a 40-year-old mentally retarded man whose death has sparked a police investigation and a grand jury probe into what happened in and around the Danziger Bridge that day.
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