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Mental illness & capital punishment to be discussed Tuesday

Posted at 7:27 pm February 4, 2019
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Sarah Graham McGee

Sarah Graham McGee

 

Mental illness and capital punishment will be discussed during a lunch in Oak Ridge on Tuesday.

The speaker will be Sarah Graham McGee, statewide coordinator for the Tennessee Alliance for the Severe Mental Illness Exclusion, or TASMIE, a press release said. TASMIE is a coalition of mental health advocates and other organizations that are educating Tennesseans about their concerns with sentencing those who have severe mental illness to death, the press release said.

The program is for Lunch with the League on Tuesday, February 5. The meeting is scheduled from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Social Hall of the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, which is located at 809 Oak Ridge Turnpike. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Courts, Front Page News, Government, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: capital punishment, League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge, Lunch with the League, mental health, mental illness, Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, Sarah Graham McGee, TASMIE, Tennessee Alliance for the Severe Mental Illness Exclusion

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