NGO report
Double Tragedies: Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty for People with Severe Mental Illness
This report asserts that the death penalty is not only inappropriate and unwarranted for persons with severe mental illness but that it also serves as a distraction from problems within the mental health system that contributed or even led directly to tragic violence. Families of murder victims and families of people with mental illness who have committed murder have a cascade of questions and needs. It is to these questions, rather than to the death penalty, that as a society we must turn our attention and our collective energies if we are truly to address the problem of untreated mental illness and the lethal violence that can result.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Mental Illness, Murder Victims' Families,