90 percent of all executions in 2017 may have involved people who were innocent or had disabilities

New research shows significant evidence of mental illness, brain damage, intellectual disability, severe trauma, or possible innocence in nearly 90 percent of capital punishment executions carried out in 2017, according to a report compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center.

90 percent of all executions in 2017 may have involved people who were innocent or had disabilities