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By Steve Hall

"Death penalty bill barely gets by committee," is the AP report via today's Winston-Salem Journal.N.C. House legislators again have narrowly approved legislation designed to prevent a murder suspect or death-row prisoner with severe mental illness from facing capital punishment. A House appropriations subcommittee voted 5-4 yesterday in favor of creating a process whereby the death penalty would be removed as a sentencing option for a murder defendant with a severe mental disability. The maximum penalty would be life in prison without parole.The bill passed a judiciary committee last week and now heads to the House floor.The American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness have all called for the exclusion of persons with a severe mental disability from capital punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 23, 2009 (boomark / email).