mentally disabled
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Sir Richard, who previously criticised the 2022 execution of mentally disabled Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, said Tangaraju's case was "shocking on multiple levels".
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2023
Her brother, John Barowski, who was mentally disabled, lived at the home, too, and got a job working at a 7-Eleven nearby cleaning up and organizing the store, Logan said.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2023
Vitalik, 15, is a mentally disabled orphan who was evacuated together with 40 others from an orphanage for children with special needs in Zaturce, in western Ukraine, in the first weeks of the war.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022
Those funds have boosted early intervention programs in schools and communities, created wraparound services for severely mentally disabled homeless people and enhanced community outreach.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2022
Legal rulings empowered people with developmental disabilities to refuse treatment and created rights for the mentally disabled that made forced institutionalization much less common.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
