Capital Punishment for the Mentally Retarded In my opinion, people who have mental retardation should not be executed for the crimes that they are accused of. There are many reasons for my answer. By definition capital punishment is an execution of a criminal who is convicted of a crime, otherwise known as punishment by death. It can be carried out in various different ways: lethal injection, electrocution and gas chamber, only to name a few. …showed first 75 words of 1082 total…

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