A Nationwide Film Documentary

To view the film online, please click here.

Don’t forget to check out our tool kits if you want to plan a screening in your community (civic, church, and other gatherings are ideal!)

To get involved:

Sixteen states have filed or are currently pursuing a severe mental illness exclusion from the death penalty. To get more involved in your state, please contact the agency or person below. If the state has a dedicated website to this issue, it is linked below:

Arizona

Arkansas

Alabama

Colorado, contact: Anna Weaver-Hayes, Executive Director, Colorado Psychiatric Society, anna@coloradopsychiatric.org, www.coloradopsychiatric.org, 303-692-8783

Florida, contact: Ingrid M. Delgado, Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops, idelgado@flaccb.org

Idaho

Indiana

Kentucky

Missouri Missouri Alliance for the Serious Mental Illness Exclusion www.masmie.org, Marion Boyd, MASMIE Project Chair marion@madpmo.org, 913-710-9858.

North Carolina

Ohio, Ohio Alliance for the Mental Illness Exemption, www.oamie.org

South Carolina

South Dakota, contact: Denny Davis, dlynndad@hotmail.com

Tennessee Tennessee Alliance for the Severe Mental Illness Exclusion, www.tasmie.org, tasmieinfo@gmail.com

Texas, contact: Greg Hansch, LMSW, Public Policy Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Texas, Office Phone: 512-693-2000

Virginia Virginia Alliance for the Severe Mental Illness Exclusion, www.vasmie.org

If your state is not listed and you would like more information about starting the process towards seeking a severe mental illness exclusion in your state, please fill out this short form and someone will get back to you soon!

For a clearinghouse of information on why individuals with a severe mental illness should not be subject to capital punishment, please visit the American Bar Association’s Severe Mental Illness Initiative website.