Jonathan Marcus Green suffers from mental illness. He is also on death row in Texas. On 30 June 2010, less than four hours from his execution, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a stay. It did so in order to consider legal questions relating to Jonathan Green’s mental “competency to be executed”. In this document Amnesty International again calls for the abolition of the death penalty in the USA. Pending that step, the State of Texas should drop its pursuit of Jonathan Green’s execution and commute his death sentence.
