Originally published: . Volume 14, No. 5. Source pages: 8.
Rep. Selders' Bill to Prohibit Death Penalty for Those Mentally Ill Fails
Rep. Selders filed a bill which prohibits the death penalty from being imposed upon any person with a severe mental illness, HB 328.
The measure was heard in the Committee on Criminal Justice on April 26. A motion to report as amended failed, with five yeas and nine nays.
Present law prohibits the death penalty from being imposed upon any person with an intellectual disability and provides for definitions and procedures to be followed after a capital defendant claims to have an intellectual disability. (b) Exercise rational judgment in relation to his conduct. (c) Conform his conduct to the requirements of the law.
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