Mental Illness Resources
Resources
A Practitioner’s Guide to Defending Capital Clients who have Mental Disorders and Impairments, September 2008.
This manual is a companion to A Practitioner’s Guide to Defending Capital Clients Who Have Mental Retardation, revised and published by the International Justice Project in 2006. This new guide deliberately limits its discussion of intellectual impairments in this manual in the belief that readers should consult the companion volume if their clients have intellectual impairments of any kind, regardless of whether they are believed to meet the criteria for exemption from capital punishment under Atkins v. Virginia.
This guide focuses on the issues arising solely in the representation of persons with mental disorders and impairments in death penalty cases.
This guide can be downloaded from the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel and the Habeas Assistance and Training Project website at: http://www.capdefnet.org/ and is also available from the International Justice Project.
Reports
Human Rights Watch: Ill-Equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness
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