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The death row phenomenon is the emotional distress felt by prisoners on death row.Concerns about the ethics of inflicting this distress upon prisoners have led to some legal concerns about the constitutionality of the death penalty in the United States and other countries.
A neurologist advised a brain scan, which showed a tumor growing at the base of his orbitofrontal cortex, compressing the right prefrontal region of his brain. After the tumor was removed, Mr. Oft's emotion, behavior and sexual activity returned to normal. But after several months of normal behavior Mr. Oft again began to collect child pornography.
Dorothy Otnow Lewis is an American psychiatrist and author who has been an expert witness at a number of high-profile cases.. She specializes in the study of violent individuals and people with dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder.
The death penalty is sought in only a fraction of murder cases, and it is often doled out capriciously. The National Academy of Sciences concludes that its role as a deterrent is ambiguous.
James Paul Grigson Jr. (January 30, 1932 – June 3, 2004), [3] nicknamed "Dr. Death" by some press accounts, [4] [5] [6] was a Texas forensic psychiatrist who testified in 167 capital trials, nearly all of which resulted in death sentences. [7]
Agofsky, initially imprisoned for another murder that occurred when he was 18, according to The Death Penalty Information Center, said in court document that he has been working "tirelessly" to ...
Biden’s motivation. A critic of capital punishment, Biden became the first U.S. president to openly oppose the death penalty. In 2020, his campaign website stated that he would “work to pass ...
Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S. 880 (1983), is a United States Supreme Court case. [1] The Court ruled on the admissibility of clinical opinions given by two psychiatrists hired by the prosecution in answer to hypothetical questions regarding the defendant's future dangerousness and the likelihood that he would present a continuing threat to society in this Texas death penalty case.