The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a man is too mentally ill to be executed. This is a big development that I can’t blog about right now because I’m in meetings all day (the inventors of PowerPoint should be executed, if you ask me).
U.S. Supreme Court blocks execution of mentally ill killer
Supreme Court halts Texas man’s execution
High court spares mentally ill killer from execution
liz | 4:48 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
I haven’t read the full story yet but it is sure to open up a lot of debate!
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