ADVISORY/Supreme Court to Decide if Execution of Mentally Challenged Murderers is Constitutional.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2001 TOPIC: The Supreme Court will determine whether executing mentally challenged murderers is in violation of the Eighth Amendment, according to an article by The New York Times. The case, which will be argued this fall, reportedly will decide if such executions are considered "cruel and unusual punishment." Of the 3,600 prisoners on death row, 10 percent of them are considered mentally challenged, meaning they have I.Q. scores of less than 70, the article says. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Mr. J. Clifford Gunter, III is a partner at Bracewell & Patterson LLP. Mr. Gunter is head of the firm's Trial Section. The Trial Section has more than 100 attorneys and its practice encompasses all aspects of federal and state trials and appeals, arbitration, and death penalty. Its clients and practice areas reflect the breadth and diversity of the firm and include both national and international issues and concerns. Mr. Gunter has argued cases before the Texas Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:
Dr. Pogos H. Voskanian, M.D., is the director of the Psychiatry & Law Program at MCP (1) See Microsoft certification. (2) (MultiChip Package) A chip package that contains two or more chips. It is essentially a multichip module (MCM) that uses a laminated, printed-circuit-board-like substrate (MCM-L) rather than ceramic (MCM-C). Hahnemann University. Dr. Voskanian can discuss topics such as insanity defense, capital sentencing and mitigation of the death penalty. 215/464-3380, forensics@pol.net Dr. Mark Levy is on the Clinical Faculty, Dept. of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Univ. California San Francisco and the Faculty of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. He is a board certified psychiatrist and forensic psychiatrist with 25 years' clinical experience and is an expert in the interface between psychiatry and law. He consults to attorneys, courts, corporations and agencies on the interface between human behavior and law. He provides expert psychiatric evaluation, opinion, advice and counsel to lawyers, the Court and businessmen on matters pertaining to the behavior of people whom they represent or for whom they are responsible. Levy has been interviewed and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, USA Today, Business Week, Reuters International, Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). , San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the , San Francisco Examiner The San Francisco Examiner is a U.S. daily newspaper. It has been published continuously in San Francisco, California, since the late 19th Century. History 19th century The beginning of the Examiner is a topic of some controversy. , The San Francisco Recorder, and San Francisco Daily The San Francisco Daily is a free newspaper in San Francisco, California, published five days a week, beginning 3 May 2006. The S.F. Daily is distributed in stores, coffee shops, restaurants, bars, and workplaces. Journal, Los Angeles Daily Journal The Los Angeles Daily Journal is the oldest newspaper serving the legal community in Los Angeles, California. External links
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