Supreme Court Refuses to Consider an Appeal From SC Death Row Inmate
Monday, June 21, 2004 at 08:55PM
TheSpook
The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider an
appeal from South Carolina death row inmate Jamie Wilson, convicted of
killing two third-graders during a shooting spree at an elementary
school in 1988. Mental health groups had urged the Supreme Court to use
Wilson's case to decide if it is unconstitutional for states to execute
people who were seriously mentally ill when they committed their
crimes. The high court has already decided that mentally retarded
inmates may not be put to death. [more]
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