By Kent Miller, Michael L. Radelet
In line with the case of Alvin Ford, an American loss of life row inmate, this thought-provoking ebook makes a speciality of the problems raised whilst the felony justice procedure makes an attempt to use the demise penalty to the mentally impaired.
Issues addressed contain: the definition of psychological ailment for the needs of exemption from execution; the overview of competence for execution by way of psychological overall healthiness execs; the implications of disagreements between wellbeing and fitness pros a couple of defendant's psychological prestige; and the destiny of prisoners who're exempted. Ford's targeted case leads the authors to ascertain extra normal concerns similar to the involvement of health and wellbeing pros in glossy capital sentencing, in addition to the management of the dying penalty i
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Verna Sanders, by then a student at Florida A & M University in Tallahassee, had known Alvin for many years. ) She told the jury that Alvin was a popular and generous person who was liked by everybody. She also spoke of his concern for his brothers and sisters. Verna was to remain close friends with Alvin until his death. Finally, the psychiatrist, Dr. David Taubel, testified. His analysis was shallow at best and, in the eyes of some attorneys who later worked on the case, manifested a subtle, if unintentional racism: He is the oldest son in a family of six, a black family of perhaps better than average ability and more drive for success and achievement than I would estimate the average black family to have had.
1. 4 Anticipating and Enduring the First Death Warrant: 1975-1981 The doors of Florida State Prison at Starke closed behind Alvin Ford on January 9, 1975. " He was processed in the standard way for all newcomers to the prison—given interviews, a physical examination, psychological evaluations, and various achievement tests. The prison psychologist calculated that Ford had an IQ of bet-ween 80 and 89; achievement test scores placed his functioning at the fourth grade level in math and at the eighth grade level overall.
A friend—I thought it was cool, just like cigarettes. It led to something and something else. My mother is very religious, strictly religious. Somehow when I got on drugs, she didn't know how to handle me. My family came to me with the problem. That pushed me further back. 4 Alvin's use of drugs later escalated, and it led directly to the crime that put him on death row. Alvin had worked for some time at the Red Lobster restaurant in Bradenton. He was a decent worker; at one point his work was good enough to place him on a team of employees that traveled across several states to open new restaurants and train the newly hired staff.
