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Home » US Law » 2022 South Dakota Codified Laws » Title 23A - Criminal Procedure » Chapter 27A - Capital Punishment » Section 23A-27A-26.1 – Death penalty not to be imposed on intellectually disabled person.

23A-27A-26.1. Death penalty not to be imposed on intellectually disabled person.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the death penalty may not be imposed upon any person who was intellectually disabled at the time of the commission of the offense and whose intellectual disability was manifested and documented before the age of eighteen years.

Source: SL 2000, ch 112, §1; SL 2018, ch 148, §1.