Article: Death Penalty and Mental Illness: Families of Victims Speak out at National Convention; 'Double Tragedies' Report Released

Transcript: Justices Weigh Mental Illness, Death ...
NPR Morning Edition;  April 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Justices Weigh Mental Illness, Death Penalty Host: RENEE ... spared the death penalty? The high ... from severe mental illness. A star football ... some form of mental illness. But under ... justifications for the death penalty, deterrence ...

Article: NAMI Praises Supreme Court Decision: Mental Illness ...
U.S. Newswire;  June 28, 2007 ;     525 words ... ... Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has ... from severe mental illness. In Panetti ... application of the death penalty is constitutional ... Application of the death penalty becomes meaningless ... symptoms of severe mental illness throughout incarceration ...

Article: Mental illness case tests death ...
Corrections Digest;  January 26, 2001 ;     357 words ... ... case from an inmate who wants mental illness to be a bar to capital punishment ... court should rule against the death penalty for inmates who can establish ... prosecutor argued that Colwell's "mental illness simply does not come under the ...

Article: Mental illness is latest death ...
AP Worldstream;  November 7, 2002 ;     470 words ... ... cruel and unusual punishment. However, death penalty opponents like Bright argue that few ... Scheidegger, legal director of the pro-death penalty Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, said mental illness should not preclude execution. Everybody ...

Article: Death Penalty and Mental Illness: ...
Mental Health Weekly Digest;  July 13, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... families of persons with mental illness who have been executed ... speak out against the death penalty (see also Mental Illness). Double Tragedies ... National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), calls the death penalty "inappropriate and ...

Article: COLUMN: Mental illness not just cause for ...
University Wire;  November 22, 2002 ;     642 words ... ... a serious mental illness whose symptoms ... experts, a major mental illness such as schizophrenia ... but does the death penalty actually deter ... alternatives to the death penalty. When asked ... disabling major mental illness? Adequate mental ...

Article: LEMAK'S MENTAL ILLNESS MAKES DEATH ...
Sun Publications (IL);  March 10, 2000 ;     445 words ... ... in which he argued that seeking the death penalty for Marilyn Lemak was completely inappropriate ... Birkett's decision to seek the death penalty for her further demonstrates for me ... as a society, should reconsider the death penalty altogether. I was shocked that Bob ...