USA: Further information: Ohio executes mentally ill man

Index Number: AMR 51/093/2011
Date Published: 16 November 2011
Categories: USA

Reginald Brooks, a 66-year-old man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was executed in Ohio, USA on 15 November, after nearly three decades on death row. He was sentenced to death in November 1983 for killing his three sons in March 1982.