Mental illnesses are medical conditions that alter a person's thinking, feelings, moods, ability to function daily. Serious mental illnesses are clinical depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, and borderline personality disorder. Inmates that are insane and do not know right from wrong and cannot understand what they have done and their punishment/ purpose of their punishment , are exempt from execution. In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that is unconstitutional to execute a person with mental retardation, but if an inmate's mental state has been restored, he or she can be executed (NationalAlliance).When it comes down to women and death penalty, a mere two
