Entries tagged with “PTSD”

Oct 28, 2025

Veterans in the Spotlight: The Unravelling of the Lives of Two Vietnam Veterans

On Veterans Day, the Death Penalty Information Center will release a new report about vet­er­ans and the death penal­ty, explor­ing the last­ing effects of mil­i­tary ser­vice and explain­ing why mil­i­tary expe­ri­ences mat­ter when vet­er­ans inter­act with the legal sys­tem. This arti­cle takes a moment to reflect on* *Battle Scars* *— DPI’s first path­break­ing report about vet­er­ans and the death penal­ty released a decade ago — and two of the pow­er­ful indi­vid­ual stories of…

Oct 22, 2025

Veterans in the Spotlight: One Man’s Struggle with Vietnam-Induced PTSD

*On Veterans Day, the Death Penalty Information Center will release a new report about vet­er­ans and the death penal­ty, explor­ing the last­ing effects of mil­i­tary ser­vice and explain­ing why mil­i­tary expe­ri­ences mat­ter when vet­er­ans inter­act with the legal sys­tem. This arti­cle shares the sto­ry of one death-sen­­tenced vet­er­an, Frederick Mendoza.* Frederick Mendoza enlist­ed in the Marine Corps in 1967 as a basic rifle­man and served over 18 months in Vietnam. He was on the…