[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----ARKANSAS----Urgent Action: Execution Set Despite Diagnosis Of Schizophrenia (USA: UA 66/17)

[Rick Halperin]

Urgent Action



EXECUTION SET DESPITE DIAGNOSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

Bruce Ward is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 17 April. He has been 
diagnosed with paranoid
schizophrenia. In custody since 1989, he has been on death row for nearly 25 
years. Thirty-two years
old at the time of the crime, he is now aged 60.

Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:

  *  Calling for clemency for Bruce Ward and for his death sentence to be 
commuted;
  *  Noting that Bruce Ward has been diagnosed with the serious mental 
disability of paranoid
     schizophrenia, with the same doctor concluding that the prisoner did not 
have a rational
     understanding of his punishment;
  *  Explaining that you are not seeking to condone violent crime or to downplay 
its consequences.
Contact below official by 17 April, 2017:

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these officials. Instead
of forwarding this email that you have received, please open up a new email 
message in which to
write your appeals to each official. This will help ensure that your emails are 
not rejected. Thank
you for your deeply valued activism!


The Honorable Asa Hutchinson
Governor of the State of Arkansas
State Capitol, Suite 250, 500 Woodlane St, Little Rock, AR 72201, USA
Fax: +1 501 682 3597
Email: http://governor.arkansas.gov/contact-info/ (use US detail)
Salutation: Dear Governor