Susannah Sheffer of Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights will present a workshop at Alternative Spring Break on mental illness and the death penalty and specifically on MVFHR's "Prevention, Not Execution" project.  MVFHR last July issued a report entitled "DOUBLE TRAGEDIES: VIctims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty for People with Severe Mental Illness".

Susannah has developed numerous written materials about victim opposition to the death penalty, including Dignity Denied:  The Experience of Murder Victims' Family Members Who Oppose the Death Penalty and "I Don't Want Another Kid to Die":  Families of Victims Murdered by Juveniles Oppose the Juvenile Death Penalty, both of which were co-authored with Renny Cushing.  She is the author of four books, and in her work with MVFHR she draws upon two decades of experience interviewing, writing, and editing.

Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights is an international, non-governmental organization of family members of victims of criminal murder, terrorist killings, state executions, extrajudicial assassinations, and “disappearances” working to oppose the death penalty from a human rights perspective.