M*A*S*H* and Providence star Mike Farrell performs this audio version of Marc Bookman's Mother Jones essay, "How Crazy Is Too Crazy To Be Executed." It involves a profoundly mentally ill young man who was sentenced to die in Texas, and now lives in a prison psychiatric unit pending the outcome of his federal appeal. You can read the essay, along with a companion piece on other death penalty cases involving mentally ill prisoners, at www.motherjones.com/andre.
Read the full story here:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/andre-thomas-death-penalty-mental-illness-texas
Produced by Mike Mechanic & Brett Brownell
Recorded at Chapman Recording & Mastering in Lenexa (Kansas City), MO
Engineered by Evan Clark
Edited by Brett Brownell
Music: "Slidetrainbisquitchu" by Jared C. Balogh
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Balogh
