After a nearly ten-year hiatus, Tennessee is set to resume executions – starting with Billy Ray Irick, a man with lifelong, well-documented mental illness.
Act fast to tell Tennessee’s Governor that this execution should not go forward.
At age eight, Irick spent 10 months in a psychiatric hospital. The rest of his childhood was spent in institutions. As an adult, he survived with the help of friends, but his untreated mental illness continued to escalate. By the time he committed the tragic crime for which he was sentenced to death, he was psychotic, hallucinating, and hearing voices that commanded him to kill perfect strangers.
