Four others wanted to rule that the Eighth Amendment never permits a state to execute a mentally retarded person.

"A blanket exclusion that a mentally retarded person can't be executed risks giving a lot of calculated murderers a way out," he said.

Smith "sponsored, and passed, legislation to prevent mentally retarded persons from being executed."

For a mentally retarded person, the work available is not always the most stimulating sort.

About 70 more are still missing from a local hospital for mentally ill and retarded persons.

The debate about whether any mentally retarded person should be executed has intensified recently, as state governments and the Supreme Court are addressing the issue.

That is often the standard that officials give when they assert that no mentally retarded person has been executed in their states.

It is about a mentally retarded person who sees an alien in the forest which would change his life forever.

In New York, a mentally retarded person can be sentenced to life in prison without parole, but not death.

Dileep plays the role of a mentally retarded person in this movie.