mental retardation and death penalty

my home state of north carolina sure has sentenced a lot of mentally retarded people to death.

in 2002, the supreme court decided that we could no longer constitutionally execute mentally retarded people.

at my future alma mater, john blume has compiled a rough list of the number of people who have had their sentences reduced from death in light of this ruling. nationally, there are 83 on the list, and guess how many north carolina claims? 16! maybe that means nc is just busier getting them off the row than other states, but i kinda doubt it.

thanks, as always to karl keys for his faithful gathering and posting.

there are three executions scheduled for this week.