‘Hundreds of mentally ill US inmates on death row’

HUNDREDS of mentally-ill prisoners are facing execution in the US, according to an Amnesty International report.

The human rights campaigners said an estimated 10% of the 3,400 people on death row were thought to have conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, brain damage and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

They also claimed one-in-10 of more than 1,000 people executed in the past 30 years suffered from mental illness.