In fact, according to JFBA, the court finds even the most mentally retarded people are completely mentally competent.

Co founder of ASENIR (First Ecuadorian Association for the Care of the Mentally Retarded)

He has since passed away, but was mentally retarded and suffers from severe bone abnormalities.

States should consider the adoption of special laws to protect the mentally retarded, incorporating existing international standards.

However, Bahrain and Morocco reported that they had no laws to prohibit the execution of the mentally retarded.

An issue of special concern to the Special Rapporteur remains the imposition and application of the death penalty on persons reported to be mentally retarded or mentally ill.

1968 1970 Medical Doctor Lynchburg Training School and Hospital for the Mentally Retarded, Lynchburg, Va., United States of America

In this regard, the report has highlighted the necessity of clarifying the safeguards to be applied to the mentally ill as opposed to the insane or the mentally retarded.

Even though most responding countries state that the insane and the mentally retarded are shielded from the infliction of the death penalty and especially from execution, reports of mentally ill and retarded persons facing the death penalty have continued to emerge during the five years covered by the seventh survey.

The Special Rapporteur also took action on behalf of two mentally retarded persons on whom capital punishment was imposed in the United States.

The Special Rapporteur may, moreover, intervene if the convicted person is a minor, mentally retarded or insane, a pregnant woman or a recent mother

Lectures and workshops were held on a variety of issues, including causes of disability, prevention of disability and caring for mentally retarded and disabled children.

The reply from Trinidad and Tobago stated that the law did not allow the mentally retarded or those of extremely limited mental competence to be sentenced to death.

The Special Committee was informed by witnesses that, on occasion, some settlers who had attacked Palestinian children were not prosecuted because they were pronounced as being mentally retarded .

The imposition of the death penalty on mentally retarded persons, the lack of adequate defence, the absence of obligatory appeals and racial bias continue to be the main concerns.

Of 7,491 mentally retarded persons, 3,299 were female, 980 were in the 10 to 19 age group and they came mainly from the provinces of Panamá, Chiriquí and Veraguas.

Schools for retarded children

Mentally.

The settlements policy has retarded the process.

In compliance with this Declaration, SOI has endeavoured to increase the number of participating countries which has nearly doubled since 1992 and to give an opportunity to mentally retarded athletes from around the world to participate in Olympic style international games.

I'm not mentally ill.

144. The mentally ill.

I was mentally preparing myself.

Halfsister and half... mentally defective.

The work undertaken by SOI during the period under review was in accordance with, and complements the, world programme of action as set forth by the Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons which was adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 1971, resolution 2856 (XXVI).

The Media Versus the Mentally Ill

You think he was mentally ill?

Mentally, we're like children, like bushmen.

We're not mentally blind, dear Father.

Furthermore, the mentally ill and the mentally disabled should not be held criminally responsible, because such patients lacked discernment.

Physically, mentally, you've gotta push, push, push.

Tom was there physically, but not mentally.

You'd still be mentally unfit to practice.

Just a name to be filed mentally.

I mean, mentally. To stimulate their imagination.

Experiments cannot be carried out on minors, mentally ill or mentally deficient persons or women who are pregnant or breast feeding.

Blood flow is slowly retarded a week later the parts in question fall off.

There has also been progress in abolishing the mandatory imposition of the death sentence in several countries and in restricting further the imposition of the death penalty on those under the age of 18 at the time of the offence and on those who are mentally retarded or suffering from mental illness.

Services for the mentally ill are being reorganized.

Specialized schools for physically and mentally disabled children

Both are deaf mutes, mentally deficient and illiterate.

Thailand replied that the mentally retarded or those of extremely limited mental competence may not be sentenced to death because section 78 of the Thai Penal Code allows extenuating circumstances to be taken into account by the Court, which may if it thinks fit, reduce the punishment to be inflicted on the offender by not more than one half .

They weren't physically transporting themselves they were mentally transporting themselves.

They weren't physically transporting themselves they were mentally transporting themselves.

Mentally she's very sick and her attacks are real enough.