List the classifications of persons who can be executed.
What will be an ideal response?
The Mentally Ill: Those who are deemed to have a mental illness can only be executed if they are able to understand their punishment. Medication can sometimes allow a mentally ill person to function and think normally. Under Sell v. United States the government can forcibly medicate a person so that he/she will be competent to stand trial if the following requirements are met first: 1) the treatment is medically appropriate, 2) it is unlikely to have side effects that may undermine the trial’s fairness, and 3) it is necessary to further important governmental trial-related interests, taking into account for less intrusive measures.
The Mentally Retarded: Prior to Atkins v. Virginia it was permissible to execute defendants with mental retardation. In 2002, the Supreme Court found that contemporary standards of what is appropriate have changed and that mentally retarded people, with a limited ability to understand the consequences of the punishment they face, should not be subjected to execution.
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