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Ford v. Wainwright

Further Readings



  • Bernstein, Sidney. "Death Penalty." Trial, October 1986, pp. 85-86.
  • Lombardi, George, Richard D. Sluder, and Donald Wallace. "Mainstreaming Death-Sentenced Inmates: The Missouri Experience and Its Legal Significance." Federal Probation, June 1997, p. 3.
  • Pastroff, Sanford M. "Eighth Amendment--The Constitutional Rights of the Insane on Death Row." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, fall 1986, pp. 844-866.
  • Taylor, Ptolemy H. "Execution of the `Artificial Competent': Cruel and Unusual?" Tulane Law Review, March 1992, pp. 1045-1065.

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