[Wally_Kalbacken]

Anyone know what methods can be built into IQ assessment tests to find patterns of deliberate wrong answers? At this point it seems to be the flavor of the month among last minute defense ploys to qualify the death row inmate as having been retarded. I expect that many of them have been coached to select wrong answers. But then again - if your IQ is really 72, are you capable of faking a 68? A. Yes – but the beads of sweat will adorn your forehead!

[Bonaparte]

I don't believe in giving killers IQ tests. Nor do I believe in administering sanity tests to them. If they were that dumb or that crazy, they would have been institutionalized all along. But if a man is smart enough and sane enough to know how to dress himself, feed himself and generally get by in life, he's smart enough and sane enough to pay for his crimes. If he attempts to hide his crime and lies to the police about his crime, he knows the difference between right and wrong.