PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Beck, James C.
TI  - The Role of Psychiatry in Death Penalty Defense
DP  - 1993 Dec 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 453--463
VI  - 21
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/21/4/453.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/21/4/453.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1993 Dec 01; 21
AB  - The author describes his experience as an expert in evaluating defendants convicted of capital murder. He reviews the Supreme Court decisions and provisions of state law that have led defense attorneys to obtain psychiatric evaluations of their clients. Three illustrative cases are presented, one of an incompetent grossly impaired defendant, one of a defendant for whom the finding of mental health played a role in over turning his conviction, and one for a defendant who was later found to be retarded and therefore not executable. The clinical and social implications of psychiatric participation in these cases are discussed.