Saturday, June 22, 2002

Dog bites man! "All of a sudden everybody on death row is going to become retarded," said Mississippi Assistant Attorney General Marvin "Sonny" White, in an AP report on the consequences of the Supreme Court decision banning executions of the retarded. Prosecutors across the country are bracing for an expected flood of appeals from inmates on death row. The Supremes left it up to the states to define "mental retardation".