Mental Illness on Death Row | |
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|Quick Facts |
|Mental illness is defined as "Any of various conditions characterized by impairment of an individual's normal cognitive, |
|emotional, or behavioral functioning, and caused by social, psychological, biochemical, genetic, or other factors, such as |
|infection or head trauma." |
|Since 1983, over 60 people with mental illness or retardation have been executed in the United States. |
|It is conservatively estimated that 5-10% of death row inmates suffer from serious mental illness. |
|Research has shown that nearly all Death Row inmates suffer from brain damage due to illness or trauma, while a vast number have|
|also experienced histories of severe physical and/or sexual abuse. |
|Mental illness is not only a problem on Death Row. In 1998, the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that 283,000...
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