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Ensuring the constitutionality of the american criminal justice system challenging states that wish to execute mentally disabled inmates. in 2002, the high court banned the execution of criminals with intellectual deficiencies ruling it a violation of the eighth amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. 17 years prior to that case 44 mentally disabled 'inmates have been killed by the state. after that ruling several states drew a hard line to define mental disabilities based on iq test results. in florida, any inmate who scored above 70 is eligible for execution. the courts would ...

That could have had act says and knowledge of that navigation system to see if there's anything that would lead investigators to think that was a deliberate, nefarious act. >> so don, walk us through that from a criminal or terror investigation approach. that you sort of have a decision tree here of each act and weighting the evidence to see whether the act was something suspicious or some sort of other benign activity. >> well, you're going to start doing a very deep background investigation starting with the pilots. and you'll be looking at things like their telephone records, their computer...

China came forward and said we checked all chinese passengers. none of them have ties to terrorism. >> that may be true. all countries that had passengers on that flight have done the same. have tried to look at every possible piece of data about every passenger. the problem with that, those searches are being done to verify the passenger information is actually correct. so you also have the possibility of counter fit passports that weren't ever reported stolen and might be more difficult to check on that. that may be ongoing as we speak and may be a much more difficult process to go through p...

Jon: clearly they have turned the corner and they are talking about syria. but earlier they were addressing monday's terrible shooting at naval yard in washington dc. really saying that we are not want to prejudge this yet. we will let the investigation move forward. there is new information this morning on the serious questions that were raised on aaron alexis. we are learning that the man killed 12 people and he had a well-documented history of mental instability. please alerted naval authority about a bizarre encounter with him. six weeks ago alexis claimed that he was hearing voices and be...

Important problem and to reflect the will of the american people when it comes to common sense steps. steps that respect our second amendment rights. rights that the president supports. and that simply in the case of the background check legislation as we discussed quite intensively for a period earlier this year, would simply build upon and improve an existing system. so that those who should not have access to firearms, because they're convicted criminals or have a serious mental instability, are prevented from obtaining them. it's a pretty simple proposition. so the president will continue ...