A majority of the 100 executed inmates examined in a new study by three legal researchers had “a severe mental illness such as schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder or psychosis.” Yet, because of an oddity in the Supreme Court’s death penalty cases, it is typically constitutional under existing precedents to execute people with these illnesses…
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/death-penalty-study-4-percent-defendants-innocent
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/15/carlos-de-luna-execution-_n_1507003.html
Clip from the Monday, July 21st 2014 edition of The Kyle Kulinski Show, which airs live on Blog Talk Radio and Secular Talk Radio monday – friday 4-6pm Eastern.
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