According to the Prison policy initiative, approximately 90% of people facing capital charges cannot afford an attorney. Researchers at the University of North Carolina have found that 43% of individuals executed between 2000 and 2015 had been diagnosed with a mental illness at some point in their life. 43%. The death penalty is not a punishment reserved for the worst of the worst. It is one reserved for the poorest of the poor. (01:55–02:05)
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Asserts that 43% of individuals executed between 2000 and 2015 had a mental illness diagnosis.
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