Mental Illness and the Death Penalty

News & Commentary about Mental Illness and the Death Penalty

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Man protesting against the death penalty in fron of the U.S. Justice Dept wearing a red shirt with a black stop sign reading "STOP EXECUTIONS NOW" in white letters.

Jan 2, 2024

Another Year of America's Failed Experiment: The Death Penalty in 2023

Protestors holding a banner with the text "Don't kill for me...Stop executions."

Feb 2, 2021

Atrocities of the Federal Death Penalty

Protestors holding a banner that reads "Stop the Death Penalty" in front on Georgia's State Capital on a sunny day in 2017. Colorado just won a major feat for anti-death penalty movement with its decision to repeal the death penalty in the state.

Feb 27, 2020

鈥淒o Not Kill in My Name鈥� 鈥� How Colorado Finally Repealed the Death Penalty

Dec 13, 2019

The Death Penalty in 2019: A Year of Incredible Progress, Marred by Unconscionable Executions

Apr 27, 2018

Prosecutors Hid Evidence of Corey Williams鈥� Innocence in Pursuit of a Death Sentence

Oct 23, 2017

Jack Greene Has Profound Mental Illness, but Arkansas Wants to Execute Him Anyway

Apr 25, 2016

Texas Courts Rely on 'Of Mice and Men' to Define Intellectual Disability and Sentence People to Death

Nov 2, 2015

If Nothing Happens Between Now and Tonight, Missouri Will Execute an Intellectually Disabled Man

Nov 14, 2014

Texas Wants to Kill This Mentally Ill Man

Aug 13, 2014

An Innocent Man Is Dying of Cancer on Texas's Death Row