[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----ARKANSAS-----Urgent Action: Bipolar Disorder Not Raised at Trial, Execution Set (USA: UA 68/17)

[Rick Halperin]

Urgent Action

BIPOLAR DISORDER NOT RAISED AT TRIAL, EXECUTION SET

Jack Jones, aged 52, is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 24 April for a 
murder committed in
1995. The jurors who sentenced him to death did not know he had been diagnosed 
with bipolar
disorder, a serious mental disability, shortly before the crime.

Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:
  *  Calling for clemency for Jack Jones and for his death sentence to be 
commuted;
  *  Expressing concern that the jury never knew that Jack Jones had been 
diagnosed with bipolar
     disorder, a serious  mental disability, in the months before the crime;
  *  Explaining that you are not seeking to condone violent crime or to downplay 
its consequences.

Contact this official by 24 April, 2017:

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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