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...Allen, 41, behaved unlike the many other death- row inmates represented by her attorneys. That may be because the high school dropout was hit by a truck as a child, suffered a head injury and was stabbed in the head. She suffered from possible brain damage, and in two IQ tests scored 69 and 80. "A resignation usually sets in at this stage, but not with Wanda," lawyer Steve Presson said. But in her life, "normal" and "rational" seldom popped up on Allen's radar screen...
This presidential election was akin to an environmental and social IQ test. But the supposedly environmentally minded Greens most certainly did not pass the test, since they took votes away from Al Gore in Florida. Nader has proved himself to be an utterly irresponsible citizen. I will still vote for the Green Party in the future, but I will never again support Nader. LOUK WIJSEN Alameda, Calif...
Ryan cited the Anthony Porter case as a paradigm of what has happened to the Illinois justice system. Porter, who has an IQ of 50, was convicted of shooting two people in a park...
...states that allow the death penalty, 13 bar the execution of the mentally retarded, as does the U.S. government for federal inmates. In 1989 the Supreme Court ruled that while executing those with diminished mental capabilities does not violate the ban on cruel and unusual punishment, a defendant's IQ and background are mitigating factors that should be considered by a jury when deciding punishment. It was, in fact, Penry's first scheduled execution that precipitated the landmark decision. The high court concluded that the jury in Penry's original 1980 conviction had not been asked to consider his mental...
Prosecutors do not deny that Penry has a low IQ, but they claim he is not nearly so limited as he is portrayed. Texas attorney general John Cornyn has alleged that Penry "can be purposefully deceptive." Prosecutors point out that Penry, who had been on parole less than three months for a rape conviction when he killed Carpenter, confessed to the crime and said, "I told her that I...hated to kill her, but I had to so she wouldn't squeal on me." A clear indication, they contend, that he discerned the gravity of his act. The stay left...