title: Cruelty to the mentally ill: an Eighth Amendment challenge to the abolition of the insanity defense.
authors.forename: Stephen M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: LeBlanc
mesh_terms: D002203:Capital Punishment / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D002961:Civil Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003416:Criminal Law / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007298:Insanity Defense / Q000266:history; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D016743:Mental Competency / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011678:Punishment / Q000266:history; D013219:State Government; D035521:Supreme Court Decisions; D014481:United States