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    • Expanded ban on death penalty for intellectually disabled people in California USA

      Expanded ban on death penalty for intellectually disabled people in California

      Article by Louis Linel published on September 01st, 2020

      The California State Legislature extended the ban on capital punishment for intellectually disabled people

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    • The California State Legislature extended the ban on capital punishment for intellectually disabled people. Until now, California law makes illegal to sentence to death anyone whose intellectual disability has been determined before they turn 18. This new legislation removes this threshold and will prohibit intellectually disabled people from being sentenced to death if mental health experts prove that their impairment began during their brain development period.

      This law now has to be presented to Gov. Gavin Newsom. As an opponent to capital punishment, the latter decreed a moratorium on executions in 2019.

      According  to Amnesty International’s last report, on death sentences and executions in 2019, “people with mental or intellectual disabilities” are facing the death penalty in the USA, as well as in Japan, Maldives and Pakistan, in violation of international human rights standards. According to Amnesty International, California has the biggest population on death row in the USA.


      (Source: Los Angeles Times)
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