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Mental illness takes center in death penalty issues at High Court
The Supreme Court faces whether severely mentally ill prisoners on death row should be executed, amid broader disputes over juvenile defendants and mentally retarded defendants. The case of James Colburn, jailed for paranoid schizophrenia, highlights the debate on mental illness and Eighth Amendment limits.
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