 They petitioned the governor to commute Morva's sentence from death to life in prison without the possibility of parole and to start treating him with antipsychotic drugs.Representatives from both Hungary, which had granted William Morva citizenship and the European Union met with and sent letters urging Governor McAuliffe to stop the execution of Morva.On June 27, 2017, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) wrote a letter to Governor McAuliffe asking him to stop the execution of a clearly mentally ill man.