February 11 program: "Executing the Mentally Ill"

"Executing the Mentally Ill: A Panel Discussion." is the topic of a Monday, February 11 program sponsored by Tennesseans for a Moratorium (TME) and other organizations. The program will take place at 7 p.m. at Belmont United Methodist Church, 2007 Acklen Avenue, Nashville, and is free and open to the public.

Speakers include:

• Linda G. Manning, Ph.D., Counseling Psychologist and Director of the Women’s Center at Vanderbilt University
• Mary Ann Hea, Clinical social worker with the Metro Public Defender’s Office
• Linda Gehringer and Darlene Krone, Family members of death row inmate
• Brad MacLean, J.D., Co-counsel for Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman, a mentally ill individual on death row who is scheduled to be executed on April 10
• Lee Norton, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., an expert on mental illness and mitigation in capital cases
• Dwight Lewis, columnist and editorial board member for The Tennessean, will serve as the moderator.

Sponsoring organizations include:

Tennesseans for a Moratorium on Executions (TME)
American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee (ACLU-TN)
Amnesty International USA - Nashville chapter
Belmont United Methodist Church
Interdenominational Ministerial Fellowship (IMF)
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) - Nashville chapter
National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) - UT student chapter
Tennessee National Organization for Women (NOW)
Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing (TCASK)

For more information, call (615) 320-7142 or (615) 329-0048.

This program is made possible with generous support from the
Tides Foundation.