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Mental Illness

Information about Mental illness.

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June 2007
- Supremes Halt Execution of Insane Inmate
  
  Washington Post | Jun 28, 07 2:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to block the execution of a schizophrenic condemned killer because Texas criminal courts had not taken his mental health into account. Anthony Kennedy joined the court's liberals and wrote the decision, which reaffirmed previous injunctions against executing the insane; Kennedy wrote that the "punishment could serve no proper purpose." More »
May 2007
- Immigrants Allege Border Drugging
  
  Los Angeles Times | May 9, 07 12:57 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Two illegal immigrants say they were drugged against their will by U.S. officials trying to deport them, their ACLU lawyer said yesterday. The two men, one Indonesian and one Senegalese, claim to have been injected with pyschotropic drugs during deportation proceedings; neither had been diagnosed with a mental illness that would have required the medication. More »
April 2007
- Virginia Closes Lethal Gun Loophole
  
  Richmond Times-Dispatch | Apr 30, 07 2:19 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Virginia governor Tim Kaine has issued an executive order closing the loophole that allowed Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui to purchase a gun, the AP reports. Effective immediately, Virginians diagnosed as dangerously mentally ill will be added to a national database that gun-store owners use for background checks. The order puts Virginia in compliance with federal law. More »
- Virginia May Close Gun Loophole
  
  Washington Post | Apr 25, 07 6:04 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine is considering closing the loophole that allowed Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung Hui to buy guns despite his dangerous and conspicuous mental illness. A judge ruled Cho mentally ill in 2005, but didn't commit him, so his records were not in the data base dealers consult. More »
- Cho Diagnosed as Autistic, Say Relatives
  
  Daily Mirror (UK) | Apr 20, 07 8:57 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Virginia Tech assassin Cho Seung-Hui's relatives in Seoul, tracked down by the London Mirror , report that Cho had been diagnosed as autistic after arriving in the U.S. His grandfather's sister, Kim Yang-Sun, said Cho caused his mother "a lot of problems" as a child and "never showed any feelings or emotions." More »
- Privacy Laws Tie Colleges' Hands
  
  Baltimore Sun | Apr 19, 07 1:43 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Despite numerous red flags, Cho Seung-Hui was able to live in a Virginia Tech dorm and plot a campus massacre in part because the law limits colleges' ability to seek help for adult students who do not request it. Stalking complaints and a report that Cho was suicidal did not outweigh federal privacy statutes and medical ethics. More »
- Cho Guns Were Legal Despite Police Record
  
  CNN | Apr 19, 07 8:09 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Killer Cho Seung-Hui's gun purchases were completely legal, despite his 2005 brushes with the police for stalking fellow students and threatening suicide. The judge who deemed him "an imminent danger to himself because of mental illness" ordered Cho to outpatient treatment; Virginia blocks gun sales only to those who have been involuntarily committed. More »
- Police Talked to Cho in 2005
  
  Washington Post | Apr 18, 07 1:50 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Police questioned Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui twice in 2005, after two women accused him of accused making unwanted contact, the Virginia Tech police department said this morning. The same semester, poetry professor Nikki Giovanni had him removed from her class. But since Cho made no direct threats, the police could not legally take action against him, they say. More »
- Docs Too Quick to Cry Depression
  
  Washington Post | Apr 3, 07 6:58 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Shrinks are too quick to term patients clinically depressed, says a new study reported in the Washington Post . Researchers argue that a quarter of "acute grief reactions," the standard symptom of depression, may in fact constitute normal responses to stress; they blame the bloated psychopharmaceutical industry, in part, for the inaccurate triage. More »

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