Death penalty fails to spare people with intellectual disability: expert
Channel: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Date: 2014-09-16

Intellectual disability expert Dr Stephen Greenspan explains how US jurisdictions try to avoid executing people with intellectual disability in accordance with constitutional law - and why their failure means it would be better to just abolish capital punishment.  
On 10 October 2014, the 12th World Day Against the Death Penalty is drawing attention to people with mental health problems who are at risk of a death sentence or execution : http://www.worldcoalition.org/worldday