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Delusions
Reports from Columbia University, Department of Psychiatry add new data to research in delusions
November 9th, 2007
Fresh data on delusions are presented in the report 'Law & psychiatry: Death row delusions: when is a prisoner competent to be executed.' According to recent research from the United States, "This column examines a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Panetti v." "Quarterman, which embraced a broader view of what makes death row prisoners incompetent to be executed. Although the defendant understood that he was to be executed and the state's purported reason for seeking his death--two criteria suggested by the Court's 1986 decision in Ford v. Wainwright--he suffered from a fixed delusion about the actual reason for his death," wrote P.S Appelbaum and colleagues,...
Source: Biotech Law Weekly (2007-11-09)
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