31.   The number is six, not seven, according to supporters of legislation banning such executions.

32.   The Texas Legislature, in an uncharacteristically progressive move, passed a law banning the execution of the retarded.

33.   There could be more, and if the Supreme Court bans executions of the mentally retarded, other defendants undoubtedly will raise the issue in their appeals.

34.   There is some long-overdue movement across the country to ban such executions and there are signs that the Supreme Court may soon revisit the issue.

35.   Twelve states ban executions of the mentally retarded.

36.   When he vetoed the legislation that would have banned the execution of the mentally retarded, Perry said no mentally retarded person had ever been executed in Texas.

37.   Whether Penry will now face a third sentencing trial may depend on whether Gov. Rick Perry signs a bill to ban the execution of mentally retarded prisoners.

38.   A man on death row in North Carolina wants the court to ban executions of mentally retarded criminals.

39.   And senators pushing for lethal injection agreed to take up another bill to ban the execution of mentally retarded people.

40.   Fifteen other states have bills banning the execution of the mentally retarded.