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But in 2002 the court reversed itself, concluding that national standards of decency had evolved away from permitting the execution of the mentally retarded.

You refer to the "moral isolation" of the United States in permitting the execution of juveniles, a practice that will now end with the Supreme Court's decision.

The next targets for a categorical ruling of the sort the court made this week are the state laws permitting the execution of those who committed murder at age 16 or 17.

In the 20 states that still have laws on the books permitting the execution of retarded people convicted of capital offenses, it is estimated that there are scores, perhaps even hundreds, of inmates whose low I.Q.'s will now qualify them for a sentence reduction to life in prison.

This includes abolishing sectarian appropriation of public jobs, replacing the confessional parliamentary system with a representative system, and permitting the execution of civil marriage on Lebanese soil.

In the United States, 25 states permit the execution of people with mental retardation, and 34 mentally retarded defendants have been executed since 1976.

Does the Constitution permit the execution of murderers under the age of eighteen?

The only other countries that permit the execution of juvenile offenders are Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

Of the 23 states that permit the execution of youthful offenders, only 7 have carried out such executions since 1976.

The United States has been one of only three nations -- the other two are Japan and Kyrgyzstan -- that permit the execution of the retarded.

The United States is one of only a handful of countries that permit the execution of someone who was under 18 at the time of his crime.