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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