California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Gotell, D064206 (Cal. App. 2014):
who commit capital offense must be sentenced to life without parole, not death]; Crook v. State (Fla. 2005) 908 So.2d 350, 358-359 [for constitutional proportionality reasons, death sentence reduced to life without parole for brain-damaged defendant].) These sentencing dispositions implicitly recognize that in appropriate circumstances it is not cruel or unusual punishment to send a defendant with mental deficits to prison for the rest of his or her life.
The judgment is affirmed.
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