article_snippet: But Cecil Clayton attorneys are arguing that mental illness and an intellectual disability, which is the result of a traumatic brain injury, make the 74-year-old ineligible for execution, NBC reported.
article_snippet: Following the accident and before the arrest, Cecil Clayton frequently went to mental health facilities, spending up to 15 months at a time under psychiatric care.
article_snippet: Cecil Clayton attorneys have argued that Cecil Clayton was mentally incompetent to stand trial but despite His attorneys appeals, state and federal appeals courts have upheld the conviction and the death penalty.
article_snippet: But there is no agreement on how much he understands he death penalty or he other options. '
article_snippet: If you can prove mental retardation, you can get exempted, but mental illness alone is not an exemption to the death penalty,' Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told the New York Times.
article_snippet: I do not believe we are the kind of country that executes the disabled.'
highlights_snippet: his lawyers say Cecil Clayton does not understand Cecil Clayton death sentence .
  