Links to Helpful Resources

• "Double Tragedies: Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty For People with Severe Mental Illness," National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2009: http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=Issue_Spotlights&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=81845



• "Mental Illness and the Death Penalty in North Carolina: A Diagnostic Approach," Charlotte School of Law, 2007: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/CharlotteMI.pdf



• Mental Illness and the Death Penalty, Death Penalty Information Center: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/mental-illness-and-death-penalty



• American Bar Association Resolution 122A recommended the exemption of people with mental illness from death penalty sentencing.