The Executioner’s I.Q. Test is an article in The New York Times on IQ & the death penalty. Check this out:
For the court majority, and for organizations like the American Association on Mental Retardation, it is clear that mentally retarded people should be exempt from the death penalty because, as a group, they are prone to gullibility and have poor impulse control and limited abstract-reasoning abilities, all of which render them less responsible for their actions — or at least for their death-penalty crimes.
Does this mean that those in the top 3%, IQs above 130, should be held to a different standard? A higher standard for mitigating circumstances? 😉
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