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| Case raises questions of fairness in executing mentally ill |
| By wect.com- Alanna Durkin Richer |
| Published: 06/30/2017 |
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - William Morva showed signs of mental illness long before he killed two men during an escape from custody in 2006, friends and family say. In the years leading up to the killings, Morva began sleeping in the woods, showed up barefoot at his father's funeral and was banned from a school campus after being found half naked on a bathroom floor. Now Morva is days from being executed in Virginia for crimes his attorneys say were spawned by delusions that made him fear for his life. The case of the inmate, now 35, has pushed to the forefront the debate over whether people with mental illness should be shielded from the death penalty. "He has never understood completely exactly what he did, the ramifications of what he did, the lives he has upset," Morva's mother said in a video, urging Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe to halt the planned lethal injection Thursday and commute his sentence to life without parole. Read More. |
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