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2013 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 23A - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 27A - Capital Punishment
§ 23A-27A-26.1 Death penalty not to be imposed on person mentally retarded when crimecommitted.
SD Codified L § 23A-27A-26.1 (2013) What's This?
23A-27A-26.1. Death penalty not to be imposed on person mentally retarded when crime committed. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the death penalty may not be imposed upon any person who was mentally retarded at the time of the commission of the offense and whose mental retardation was manifested and documented before the age of eighteen years.
Source: SL 2000, ch 112, § 1.
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