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NAMI Joins with Murder Victims' Family Members in Groundbreaking New Project; Request for Assistance

By Kristin Houle

Murder Victims? Families for Human Rights (MVFHR) and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) have come together to draw attention to the intersection between the death penalty and mental illness from the victims? perspective. MVFHR is an international organization composed of relatives of homicide victims and relatives of people who have been executed, all of whom oppose the death penalty in all cases. MVFHR opposes the death penalty from a victim perspective (asserting that executions do not help victims achieve justice or closure) and from a human rights perspective (asserting that executions violate the most basic of human rights). Within MVFHR?s membership are relatives of victims killed by persons suffering from mental illness and relatives of mentally ill offenders who have been executed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Prevention Not Punishment on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).