Sentence examples similar to retarded justice from inspiring English sources
"Granting patent protection to advances that would occur in the ordinary course without real innovation retards progress," Justice Kennedy said.
Either we do not owe any justice to the severely retarded, he concludes, or we do owe it to animals with higher capabilities.
WASHINGTON — More than a decade after the Supreme Court banned the execution of the "mentally retarded" in 2002 in Atkins v. Virginia, the justices agreed on Monday to clarify how states should determine who qualifies.
Justice is truly blind… and also functionally retarded.
His lawyers had argued that he was mentally retarded and that his case could be influenced by a pending one from Virginia in which the justices are expected to reconsider the constitutionality of executing retarded offenders.
"It will retard the course of justice even further in these cases, and that's the tragedy".
Justice Stevens noted that the list of states barring execution of the retarded had grown since then by 16.
Hill's legal team had appealed to the nine justices to intervene on the grounds that the same court prohibited executions for "mentally retarded" prisoners – as called in US jurisprudence – in 2002.
"It's completely retarded".
