Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights and the National Alliance on Mental Illness To Launch National Project

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 3^rd. 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.