Mental Illness and the Death Penalty
The Supreme Court is facing new questions about the states’ use of the death penalty. Credit: ©Brand X Pictures/PunchStock
This week’s story update on the Election Central Web site updates you about the challenges of mentally ill prisoners and the use of the death penalty.
Among the most controversial issues in the United States today is the use of the death penalty. And that issue gets even murkier when one considers the role of mental illness and mental disability in a death penalty sentence. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court just reversed a decision by the Texas courts that would have sentenced a mentally disabled man to death–for the second time. Here, Election Central takes a closer look.
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