Forensic psychologists and the machinery of execution Andre Thomas, Texas When Andre Thomas killed his wife and children, he was ca...

  Lawyer erred by not calling psychologist, appellate court holds    A trial counsel’s failure to call a psychologist to testify at the sen...

"The SVP Act does not include its own special exception" Ramiro Gonzales had no idea how far the news would travel, when he con...

The U.S. Supreme Court has just refused to block the execution of Teresa Lewis, whom I blogged about Sept. 8 , setting the stage for Virgin...

While all eyes are on Iran's ( just suspended ) threat to stone a woman to death, a mentally challenged woman in the U.S. state of Virgi...

The so-called " Flynn Effect " is a big deal these days in capital litigation circles. Named after the New Zealander who first not...

Denkowski faces loss of license for role in capital appeals The U.S. Supreme Court's Atkins decision triggered a wave of ferocious lega...

That's the title of a new blog some of you will be interested in. Produced by Kevin McGrew , director of the Institute for Applied Psyc...

Getting arrested, even on a minor charge, can be hazardous in unexpected ways. Especially if you are mentally impaired and have brown skin a...

The American Bar Association today released findings of a three-year study on state death penalty systems and called for a nationwide morat...

Two months ago, I posted here about a cognitively handicapped Mexican-American man who was illegally deported to Mexico and disappeared. Pe...

The 2005 remake of "Fun with Dick and Jane" has a scene in which Jim Carrey – reduced to the status of a day laborer outside a Hom...

States are using various approaches to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court's ban on executing mentally retarded offenders. (The 2002 case...