‘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.

‘Hundreds of mentally ill US inmates on death row’

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.

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