Entries tagged with “Stanley Fitzpatrick”
Policy Issues
Mental Illness
,May 29, 2024
Recent Decisions in Capital Cases Reflect Growing Understanding of How Serious Mental Illness Affects Behavior and Culpability
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and the impact of mental illness is keenly felt on death row: at least two in five people executed have a documented serious mental illness, and research suggests that many more death-sentenced prisoners are undiagnosed. A national majority, 60% of Americans, opposes executing people with serious mental illness. In the past two decades, science and medicine have contributed to a much better understanding of how serious mental illness, which refers to…
Executions
Upcoming Executions
,Jun 05, 2020
News Brief — Three More Reprieves Mean No Executions in Ohio in 2020
NEWS (6/5/20) — Ohio: Governor Mike DeWine (pictured) issued reprieves to the last three Ohio death-row prisoners facing executions dates in 2020, ensuring that the state will not carry out any executions this year. A news release announcing the action said the reprieves were granted “due to ongoing problems involving the willingness of pharmaceutical suppliers to provide drugs to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC), pursuant to DRC protocol, without…