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Plenty of mentally ill people put to death in this country: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/02/texas-execution-mentally-ill-history-scott-panetti ht
by GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
Plenty of mentally ill people put to death in this country: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/02/texas-execution-mentally-ill-history-scott-panetti http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/02/texas-executi... https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/AMR51/003/2006/en/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/AMR51/003/2006/en/
See also Atkins v. Virginia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkins_v._Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkins_v._Virginia
- eggy 11y agoThanks for pointing that out, and I'll have to look at it, but the death penalty is not for killing in self-defense; it is for murder. My point was that whether she was mentally ill or not, she was being abused, and acted in self-defense. The mental illness becomes a secondary factor to show self-defense crossed over to killing rather than avoidance or restraint.