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Upon announcement of this year's National History Day theme: Rights and Responsibilities in History, our group toyed with several topics. Skimming through rights in history, a thought about the mentally ill people, led us to selecting the Rights of the Mentally Retarded. When focusing on research, we came to the realization that the topic was indeed to braud. Our topic was then narrowed down to, The Right of the 8th Amendment for the Mentally Retarded in Prison. We then discovered court cases over the rights of the mentally retarded in prison, and decided that the case that appealed the most was Penry v Lynaugh. Resulting our topic to be: The Right of the 8th Amendment for the Mentally Retarded in Prison: Penry v Lynaugh.
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