Though shut up indoors and desperately ill, he executed the scene in brilliant, vigorous and confident colour".Van Gogh in the Borinage" is comprehensively researched and sensitively told.
More than a quarter of the 100 mentally ill prisoners executed since 1977 had "volunteered", in some cases because they had "clearly despaired" of receiving treatment for their condition, the report said.
His new book is titled Government Ill-executed.
In the rare instance when a prisoner is so mentally ill that he is unlikely to recover, he is likely to be too ill to be executed under a 1986 Supreme Court ruling.
"At first, you feel like you're the only person this has ever happened to," said Lois Robison, whose mentally ill son was executed in Texas in 2000 for the murder of five people.
Greg Hansch, the director of public policy for the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Texas, said allowing the severely mentally ill to be executed is "a broken aspect of our criminal justice system". .
Then there was an ill-advised, poorly executed leap to Broadway, where the show ran a mere four months (again, without ever officially opening), before closing in October 1976.
Foden, despite his free-spirited attacking instincts, is aware that poorly executed, ill-timed offloads can prove as costly as any ruck offence.
Like Burgoyne's ill-fated journey, which ended in surrender to the American colonists at the Battle of Saratoga, Romney's trip was ill-conceived, poorly executed, scarred by miscommunication, and, ultimately, it had the effect of encouraging the enemy.
Smith has clearly done her research but her critique of western aid policies in developing nations – namely, that financial aid is often ill-conceived, poorly executed and rarely sustained – is scarcely new or unexpected.
