To show toughness on crime, he executed Rickey Ray Rector, a brain-damaged black man who seemed unaware that death was permanent.

A brain-damaged man, trapped in a coma-like state for six years, was brought back to consciousness in 2003 by doctors who planted electrodes deep inside his brain.

A team of neuroscientists reported Sunday that they had restored some movement and speech to a severely brain-damaged man by stimulating his brain with pulses of electric current.

A brain-damaged man accused of setting a fatal fire in a fireworks store belongs in a medical institution, his lawyer has argued after the man fought deputies in jail.

I'm a brain-damaged man sitting in a room for eternity, asking one question of the darkness.

Bill Clinton went home to Arkansas in January to be there when a brain-damaged man was executed.

Scientists develop a way of communicating with a brain-damaged man by accessing his thoughts.

Ronald Reagan, who succeeded Mr. Brown, granted the last capital commutation in California, in 1967, to a brain-damaged man.

Mr. Arancio's wry underplaying uncovers the intellectually superior, laconically articulate aspects of a brain-damaged man.

He has just finished work on "Bringing Out the Dead," the bleak Scorsese film in which he plays a brain-damaged homeless man.