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In addition, the US Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment was unconstitutional for convicted people who are mentally disabled. A group of supporters formed the non-profit Friends of Joe Arridy and worked to bring new recognition to the injustice of his case, in addition to commissioning a tombstone for his grave in 2007.
Kenneth Easterday (December 7, 1973 – February 12, 2016) was an American man born with the rare disability, sacral agenesis. To improve his mobility, his legs were amputated at the hip when he was just six months old.
Robin Francis Cavendish, MBE (12 March 1930 – 8 August 1994), was a British advocate for people with disability, medical aid developer, and one of the longest-lived responauts [a] in Britain. Born in Middleton, Derbyshire , Cavendish was affected by polio at the age of 28.
One of five girls aged 12 to 15 involved in the beating death of disabled Reggie Brown, 64, of Washington, D.C., will be behind bars until she is 21 years old, reports say. The 13-year-old was ...
Mentally disabled woman who was tortured and stabbed to death by "The Greensburg Six" Jennifer Lee Daugherty (November 8, 1979 – February 11, 2010) was an American woman from Greensburg , Pennsylvania , who was killed by her supposed friends, in an act of revenge, in February 2010.
The Yuba County Five were a group of young men from Yuba County, California, United States, each with mild intellectual disabilities or psychiatric conditions, who were reported missing after attending a college basketball game at California State University, Chico (also known as Chico State), on the night of February 24, 1978. [1]
Dorothea Helen Puente (née Gray; January 9, 1929 – March 27, 2011) was an American convicted serial killer.In the 1980s, she ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and murdered various elderly and mentally disabled boarders before cashing their Social Security checks. [1]
Robert William Latimer (born March 13, 1953) is a Canadian canola and wheat farmer who was convicted of second degree murder in the death of his daughter Tracy Lynn Latimer (born November 23, 1980 – October 24, 1993).