Earlier this year you helped stop 4 executions in Arkansas. We need Governor Asa Hutchinson to hear your voice again to help stop this Thursday’s scheduled execution of Jack Greene, a person with severe mental illness. The U.S. Supreme Court has prohibited the execution of persons whose mental illness prevents them from having a “rational understanding” of their punishment. Doctors who have examined Mr. Greene in recent months have determined that he lacks a rational understanding. Mr. Greene believes he will be executed as part of a conspiracy between his attorneys and the prison to destroy his nervous system. In order to protect prisoners like Mr. Greene from unconstitutional execution, U.S. Supreme Court precedent guarantees the right to a fair competency hearing with a neutral decision-maker. However, Arkansas’s state statute gives the Director of the Department of Correction—the person responsible for carrying out executions—sole discretion to determine whether a prisoner is competent to be executed. The Director of the Department of Correction is not a neutral decision-maker. Allowing her to make a competency determination is a violation of due process and separation of powers. Giving decision-making power to a member of the executive branch whose duty is to carry out warrants of execution is a frightening proposition. To make matters worse, Mr. Greene has not even had a comptency hearing to establish whether his execution would be constitutional or not. The Director of the Department of Correction thinks he doesn’t need one, despite the fact that Mr. Greene continually writhes and contorts his body to relieve imaginary pain, and frequently stuffs his nose and ears with paper until they bleed. Cases like Mr. Greene’s show why we need the Arkansas legislature to reform the procedures for assessing competency and to pass a severe mental illness exemption that protects the very ill from being executed. While there is room for debate about the death penalty as policy, surely we can all agree that it is unjust to execute a person who cannot rationally understand the world around him, like Mr. Greene Please call Governor Hutchinson and respectfully ask him to stop the execution of Jack Greene. The phone number is (501) 682-2345. Please use the script below: “Hello. My name is XX. I am calling to express my opposition to the scheduled execution of Jack Greene on November 9th. I believe that the death penalty should not be used on people with severe mental illness, like Mr. Greene. I ask Governor Hutchinson to consider my request and show mercy to Mr. Greene, who I believe is too mentally ill to be executed. Thank you for your time and for taking my message.”