USA (Virginia): Death penalty / Legal concern: Percy Levar Walton

USA (Virginia): Death penalty / Legal concern: Percy Levar Walton

Index AI: AMR 51/039/2008
Date de publication: 9 mai 2008
Catégories: États-Unis d'Amérique

Levar Walton, who suffers from serious mental illness, is scheduled to be executed in Virginia on 10 June. He was sentenced to death in 1997 for the murders of three people in November 1996. In 1999, three mental health experts concluded that Levar Walton suffers from severe schizophrenia and was probably suffering from this mental illness at the time of the crime.