 On June 29, 2017, advocacy groups presented petition signatures of over 31,000 persons to Governor McAuliffe's office, urging him to grant clemency to M orva.The signatures were collected by the ACLU, Amnesty International, NAMI, Mental Health America in Virginia, the Virginia Council of Churches, and Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.Bill Farrar with the ACLU of Virginia expressed the view that "severe mental illness should not be a death sentence."