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While I am not to keen on the execution of the mentally disabled (I haven't really made my mind up either way), it should be noted (again) that the testing processes used are not necessarily all-inclusive.
A few of the cases mentioned above had a lot of controversy regarding whether or not the person was mentally disabled.
If you think about it, it is a pretty good defense, easy to set up and hard to prove.
From what I read about it, having execution on the table at sentencing had to do whether or not the person knew what they were doing was wrong. The "mental age" wasn't as big an issue as the ability to tell right from wrong.
and...
I would rather have the problem we have regarding executions and "mentally disabled" persons, than to support the country that does this (and worse) to women on a pretty much everyday basis.
While both are bad, ours happens very, very rarely.
This happens (and things like it) in some Muslim countries regularly.
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