Bills to restrict the death penalty for mentally retarded...

Bills to restrict the death penalty for mentally retarded defendants and when evidence of racial discrimination can be shown were introduced but not passed in Oregon. The state restricts the death penalty to those who were at least 18 years of age when the crime was committed. However, a bill to allow younger teenagers to be tried as adult for aggravated murder was introduced and might have affected the state's death penalty law, but it did not pass.