41.   In some parts of China, local authorities tried to implement eugenics policies by sterilizing mentally retarded people.

42.   Last week, the justices divided bitterly in exempting mentally retarded people from execution.

43.   Older children were forced into labor and unruly children were sent to psychiatric wards or institutions for mentally retarded people.

44.   Separately, the high court agreed Monday to consider whether the Constitution bars the execution of retarded people as cruel and unusual punishment.

45.   Sen. Rodney Ellis, a Democrat from Houston, has said that the state has executed six mentally retarded people since the death penalty resumed.

46.   The court left it to states to develop their own systems to ensure that mentally retarded people are not executed.

47.   The justices have agreed to hear a case next fall testing whether mentally retarded people may be executed.

48.   The Thai government wants to sterilize mentally retarded people to prevent them from having children they cannot care for, the head of a government hospital said Thursday.

49.   Vaud officials said that unlike the Swedish law the Swiss intent was simply to prevent mentally retarded people from giving birth to mentally impaired people.