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USA - Tennessee. Governor signed law that prohibits execution of intellectually disabled

USA - Tennessee

15 May 2021 :

Gov. Bill Lee signed a new law (HB 1062 SB 1236) that makes retroactive Tennessee’s law that prohibits the execution of the intellectually disabled.

https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-health-coronavirus-pandemic-c227d13b4654ddd94ea83970fe0f3ae4#:~:text=The%20petition%20was%20filed%20in,execution%20of%20the%20intellectually%20disabled.&text=Attorneys%20for%20Pervis%20Payne%2C%2054,the%20change%20to%20the%20law

 
(Source: AP, 11/05/2021)

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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.