Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights (MVFHR) and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) are work­ing togeth­er to launch a nation­al project con­cerned with the inter­sec­tion of the cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment sys­tem and peo­ple with severe men­tal ill­ness. The groups will host a press con­fer­ence in San Antonio, Texas on October 3rd. Speakers will include the Director of MVFHR, the NAMI Policy and Legal Director, fam­i­ly mem­bers of vic­tims mur­dered by peo­ple with men­tal ill­ness, and fam­i­ly mem­bers of peo­ple with men­tal ill­ness who were exe­cut­ed. The press con­fer­ence will be held at 3:00 PM in San Antonio at the University of the Incarnate Word, Bonilla Science Hall audi­to­ri­um, room 129. (Source: MVFHR press release). See also Mental Illness and Victims.

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