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Executing the Mentally Ill

How sane must a convict be to face execution? And is justice served if medicine is forcibly administered so that a convict is sane enough to face the death penalty? The cases of Death Row inmates Horace Kelly and Charles Singleton have severely tried the practical and moral boundaries of capital punishment. In this program, ABC News anchor Forrest Sawyer; Richard Mazer, defense counsel for Kelly; Dr. Paul Applebaum, director of the law and psychiatry program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School; and law professor Christopher Slobogin analyze the Kelly and Singleton cases, discussing the legal and ethical implications of the pivotal terms "awareness" and "competence." (22 minutes)

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Item#: BVL9227
Copyright date: ©1998




     
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