In: Psychology
Discuss bans on executions of the mentally retarded and juveniles
200 word minimum please
Ban on execution of the mentally retarted:
Firstly we should know about mental retradation .it is significantly subavereage general intellctual funtioning existing concurrently with imapirement of adaptive behaviour and manifested During the develoment period.so this definition of Americans association mental retradation has been acepted by court legislature .after discussing the definition court baned the death penalty for mental retradation people.on June 20, 2002, supreme Court held that executing of mentally retarted defendant was unconstitutional.punishment is excessive for them.so fedaral government probhited execution of mental retarded children.mental retarded also term intellectual incapablities and disability should not be put in death because they are less culpable.but there is also limited .ssomeone who is under 18 age , when they committ a crime can not excecuted.
Ban on execution oon juvinile:
The supreme Court likely to ban excution of crime committed for juvinile .juvinile are death punishment before enforcement of ban on excecution which us truly unusual punishment.the child whose age under 17 , if doing any crime , then strictly probhited excution of death penalty.child are not in position in this age to take any decisions and mentally not so stable.so accidentally if he committed crine, then excution is not solution.so it must be ban . otherwise it lead great hampered on their life.