Comments on: 2004: Case Study: Kelsey Patterson

By: ExecutedToday.com » 2007: Michael Richard, whose time ran out

ExecutedToday.com » 2007: Michael Richard, whose time ran out — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:02:14 +0000

[...] it caught worldwide attention as an illustration of Texas’s cavalier approach to its numerous death penalty [...]

By: Souza

Souza — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:57:41 +0000

How the heck did he find that weapon in the first place ?
Guns should be banned. Eeryone except for innocent and honest people has one.

By: The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act » Geistig Behindert «

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:06:27 +0000

[...] (wohlgemerkt: Das Urteil gilt nicht für psychisch Kranke, wie das traurige Beispiel von Kelsey Patterson zeigt!). Die einzelnen Bundesstaaten wurden angewiesen Regelungen auszuarbeiten (sofern sie das [...]

By: ExecutedToday.com » Executed Today’s First Annual Report: One Year of Dying Languorously

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:30:27 +0000

[...] May 18, 2004: Kelsey Patterson [...]

By: Verneeda Alvarez

Verneeda Alvarez — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:05:41 +0000

To me, a shifting of housing should be done for trhe mentally ill, that
are unstable in their ability to understand the effects of not taken their
meds and the consequence being that they are liable to committ crimes. Throwing the mentally ill in prisons and not treatment for the
criminally insane in hospitals is risky and if given the death penalty equally unjust. It says to me, that “we can’t handle this problem, so we
are going to just execute this person.” We can spend billions for war,
but we don’t provide ways to protect the insane from themselves and
others. To execute the criminally insane is the vilest method of solving
this problem. They belong in a facility, especially the criminally insane,
and we need competent doctors understand how to treat people
that minds goes in and out of insanity. We are at risk when this
problem is not solved, and given top priority for funding facilities,
in assuring that the public is safer. Sadly, there is a threat of closing a
facility in my state, and we don’t need them homeless, not in America.

By: Dmitri Minaev

Dmitri Minaev — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:19:39 +0000

Of all your stories this one has shaken me most. I understand that the people involved in this case knew all the circumstances, that they were qualified better than I will ever be, but I can’t believe they had no choice. Just think that in the 21 century mentally ill people are still executed. No, even worse.Just think that in the 21 century people are still executed…

By: Ward Larkin

Ward Larkin — Sun, 18 May 2008 14:58:16 +0000

I disagree with the 1st sentence of this report.

“The case of Kelsey Patterson … is one of the most compelling examples of what can happen when the mental health system fails to provide adequate care ….”

Kelsey Patterson is not one of the most compelling examples of what happens when the mental healthcare system fails to provide adequate care. Kelsey Patterson is but one of 100s (if not 1000s) of examples of otherwise preventable murder and violent assault due to the deliberate indifference of mental healthcare professionals.