Case studies in public-sector leadership: implementing a metabolic initiative in a community mental health clinic.

摘要

Justice Stevens' opinion for a six-justice majority did just that. Pointing to a developing consensus among the states that persons with mental retardation had a reduced level of culpability and should not be put to death, the majority held that evolving standards of decency precluded execution of persons with mental retardation. However, although Stevens recognized that there might be serious disagreement about whether a particular defendant is mentally retarded, all considerations regarding how to implement the decision were explicitly left to the states.