ADVISORY/Mental Health Advocates Fear Executions of Mentally Ill Prisoners.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2000 TOPIC: According to a Newhouse News Service report, the National Mental Health Association stated that 10 percent of death row death row n. nick-name for that portion of a prison in which prisoners are housed who are under death sentences and are awaiting appeals and/or potential execution. (See: death penalty, capital punishment) inmates allegedly are mentally ill and that, since 1983, 60 mentally ill inmates have been put to death in prisons across the United States. Federal courts consider death row inmates to be sane if they can comprehend what execution is and why it is happening to them. However, many mental health experts allegedly claim that those who are mentally ill merely parrot what is being said to them giving off the impression that they actually understand the situation. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Professor Verta Taylor, of Ohio State University, Department of Sociology, has expert knowledge in areas including sociology and mental illness. 614/292-0320 614/292-OHIO (University PR Phone) Professor Allan Horwitz, of Rutgers University, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, can discuss topics involving mental illness, criminology and sociology. 732/445-4139 732/932-INFO (University PR Phone) Dr. Pogos H. Voskanian, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry for MCP Hahnemann (Christian Friedrich) Samuel 1755-1843. German physician and founder of homeopathy. He postulated that medicine produces symptoms in healthy people that are similar to those that it relieves in sick people. ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. Please visit the BW Media Resource Center at (www.businesswire.com/media) for more information. |
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