The Prevention, Not Execution Project is a collaborative effort between Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights and the National Alliance on Mental Illness. The project aims to end the death penalty for people with severe mental illness by bringing together families of victims killed by people with severe mental illness and families of people with severe mental illness who have been executed.

Read the report, Double Tragedies: Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty for People with Severe Mental Illness, released by MVFHR and NAMI in July 2009.

See photos and accounts from the panel presentation at NAMI’s annual convention in San Francisco, July 2009.

See photos and testimony from the October 2008 gathering in San Antonio that marked the launch of the project.