Competency Restoration and Execution

Restoration to competency through various means, including forcible medication of defendants or inmates with mental illness, is permitted throughout the legal process. In the 1990 case of Washington v. Harper, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a mentally ill inmate could ...

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