USA - South Dakota. The Senate defeated SB 71 to prohibit death penalty for person with severe mental illness.

26 February 2019 :

The Senate voted 21-12 to defeat SB 71, which would have prohibited the death penalty for any person with severe mental illness.

 
(Source: DPIC, 13/02/2019)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.