A new edition of the Catholic University Law Review includes papers from the university’s recent symposium on mental illness and the death penalty. The presentations by experts delivered during the symposium address how policy makers and the courts might resolve the propriety of executing those with mental illness. Articles examine recommendations from the Task Force of the ABA’s Section of Individual Rights and Reponsibilities regarding mental disabilities and the death penalty. Authors also explore whether the execution of those with mental illness violates the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment because these offenders have diminished mental capacity. Among the panel members whose remarks are included in the law review are Task Force members Ronald Tabak (Skadden, Arps), Prof. Christopher Slobogin (Univ. of Fl.), Ronald S. Honberg (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill), and Prof. Richard Bonnie (Univ. of Va.), and DPIC’s Executive Director Richard Dieter, who is also an adjunct faculty member of the Law School.

(54 Catholic University Law Review 1113 (2005)). See Mental Illness and Law Reviews.

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