Entries tagged with “Betsy Neill”

Apr 03, 2017

STUDIES: 21^st-Century Executions Disproportionately Involve Defendants With Mental Illness

A new study of the case records of the men and women exe­cut­ed in the United States between 2000 and 2015 has found that 21^st-cen­tu­ry exe­cu­tions dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly involve pris­on­ers diag­nosed with men­tal ill­ness and who have expe­ri­enced trau­mat­ic c…