Serious Mental Illness (SMI) and the Death Penalty

Most recent stories in Serious Mental Illness (SMI) and the Death Penalty

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  Indiana Abolition Coalition

  

  COVID Delayed the First Federal Execution of a Woman in 70 Years

  VICE - By Trone Dowd

  Lisa Montgomery, a woman whose life has been marred by years of sexual abuse and mental illness, has been serving a life sentence in federal prison since murdering a pregnant woman more than 15 years ago. Now, the only obstacle preventing her from becoming the first woman executed by the U.S. …

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  Indiana Abolition Coalition

  

  Ohio House Passes Bill to Bar the Death Penalty for Defendants with Serious Mental Illness

  deathpenaltyinfo.org

  The Ohio House of Representatives has over­whelm­ing­ly approved a bill that would ban the death penal­ty for offend­ers who were seri­ous­ly …

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  Indiana Abolition Coalition

  

  Executing People with Serious Mental Illness -- Like Wesley Purkey -- Is Wrong | ACS

  acslaw.org - Ron Honberg, J.D.

  Wesley Purkey is a 67-year old man in rapid decline from Alzheimer’s disease. He also suffers from longstanding multiple serious mental health …

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  Indiana Abolition Coalition

  

  I'm on Death Row for Punching a Man

  VICE - By J.T. Kirksey

  This article was published in collaboration with the Marshall Project. Sign up for their newsletter. It’s 1988. Me and my homeboy—Schoolboy we called him—are sitting in a car in Las Vegas, drinking. A woman we know comes up to us. She has a black eye, and we ask her what happened. She says her pimp …

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  Indiana Abolition Coalition

  Jul 2, 2018
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  Indiana Abolition Coalition

  

  Study: Tennessee Could Save $1.4 Million Annually Ending Death Penalty for Severe Mental Illness

  deathpenaltyinfo.org

  Tennessee could save an esti­mat­ed $1.4 – 1.89 mil­lion per year by adopt­ing a ban on cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment for defen­dants with severe men­tal …