| January 10, 2007 | - Depressed American zoo animals were taking Prozac.
| Source:
L.A. Times
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| December 17, 2006 | - The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly was found to have downplayed the health risks of Zyprexa, its best-selling medication for schizophrenia.
| Source:
NYT
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| October 24, 2006 | - Actress Mary Carey, star of such films as Pussyman's Decadent Divas 29 and Tit Happens, dropped out of the California gubernatorial race to care for her mother, a schizophrenic, who was injured while jumping from a four-story building.
| Source:
Yahoo News and IMDB.com
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| July 8, 2006 | -
British
scientists found that playing with dolls can help improve Alzheimer's patients' communication abilities.
| Source:
BBC News
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| May 29, 2006 | - In Germany, at the official opening of the Hauptbahnhof, the largest railway station in Europe, a man went on a rampage and stabbed 35 people. Because one of the first people he stabbed was HIV positive, concerns were raised that some of the subsequently stabbed may also become infected.
| Source:
The Independent
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| May 7, 2006 | -
Army recruiters in Portland, Oregon, were under investigation for recruiting an autistic boy for a dangerous position in the cavalry scouts.
| Source:
TwinCities.com
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| March 16, 2006 | - At least 2.5 million American children were taking antipsychotic drugs.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| March 7, 2006 | - Scientists were investigating a family of mentally retarded Kurds in Turkey who walk on all fours. "However they arrived at this point," said a scientist, "we have adult human beings walking like ancestors several million years ago."
| Source:
Time-warp family who walk on all fours
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| December 8, 2005 | - In Miami an air marshal shot and killed an American Airlines passenger, Rigoberto Alpizar, who, according to the air marshal, claimed to have a bomb in his backpack. Before the shooting, Alpizar's wife attempted to explain that her husband was bipolar and off his medication. No bomb was found.
| Source:
Detroit News
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| September 21, 2005 | - The skeleton of a schizophrenic man was found in Wales; he had handcuffed himself to a tree. Deep scuff marks on the tree made it clear that the man had tried to free himself.
| Source:
Liverpool Daily Post
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| February 11, 2005 | - The Supreme Court of California decided to allow mentally retarded
death-row
prisoners to appeal their cases.
| Source:
LA Times
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| October 10, 2003 | - Four white Texans were arrested for beating a retarded
black man unconscious.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 25, 2002 | -
The Supreme Court of the United States decided that it was no longer okay to execute retarded people, because a “national consensus” has emerged that such judicial killings are cruel and unusual punishment and are thus, in light of “evolving standards of decency,” prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.
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| June 25, 2002 | -
The Court offered little guidance for determining what constitutes “retarded.” After a series of Palestinian suicide attacks, including an attack on a home in Itamar, a Jewish settlement near Nablus, in which a mother and her three children were murdered, Israel's security cabinet voted to seize the entire West Bank.
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| August 7, 2001 | - North Carolina's governor said he would sign a bill outlawing the execution of retarded people.
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| June 26, 2001 | - Governor Rick Perry of Texas vetoed legislation banning the execution of retarded people just a few days after President Bush declared that retards should never be put to death; Bush and Perry both have claimed that Texas has never done so, though six inmates with IQs below 70 have been put down since 1980.
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| June 12, 2001 | - The United States Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a retarded Texan.
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| May 29, 2001 | - The Texas legislature was working on a bill that would ban the execution of retarded people.
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| May 8, 2001 | -
Florida banned the execution of retarded people.
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| April 3, 2001 | - The Supreme Court said it would decide whether executing retarded murderers was cruel and unusual.
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| March 13, 2001 | - Missouri was preparing to execute a retarded man when the Supreme Court issued a last-minute stay.
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| December 5, 2000 | - The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of a retarded
Texas killer who believes in Santa Claus; he was scheduled to die but got a reprieve.
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| November 21, 2000 | - A French court ruled that a seventeen-year-old boy who was born retarded, deaf, and nearly blind could sue for having been brought into the world.
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| November 21, 2000 | -
Texas almost broke the record for the most executions by a single state in one year; a retarded murderer and rapist was granted a stay four hours before he was to be killed.
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| August 15, 2000 | -
Texas executed a retarded murderer who enjoyed coloring with crayons.
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