Access to Counsel: A Matter of Life or Death
Join Amnesty International USA as we commemorate the 18th Annual World Day Against the Death Penalty. This year's theme is Acess to Counsel: a matter of life or death.
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Events
End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice
The failed death penalty experiment teaches us how inept lawyering, overzealous prosecution, race discrimination, wrongful convictions, and excessive punishments undermine the pursuit of justice. Garrett makes a strong case for what a future criminal justice system might look like if these injustices were remedied. Brandon L. Garrett teaches law at the Duke University School of […]
Racism and the Death Penalty
Curtis Flowers spent 23 years on Mississippi's death row. He was tried six times by a racist prosecutor before the US Supreme Court stepped in to save his life. Our panelists will share their unique perspectives on the inextricable link between lynching and the modern-day death penalty. Henderson Hill, Senior Counsel at ACLU Capital Punishment […]
The Fear of Too Much Justice
onlineJoin us for an evening with Stephen Bright, one of the loudest and most persuasive voices on the problems of racism and classism in our criminal justice system for over 40 years. He has tried capital cases before juries in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, and argued cases before state and federal appellate courts, including four […]
Another World Is Possible: Grace, Mercy, and Restorative Justice
The Arch 3601 Locust Walk Rm 208, Philadelphia, PAThis event revolves around a better vision for justice than our current system of capital punishment and mass incarceration. Shane will frame this event theologically and socially, and it will feature a panel of respondents who have been directly impacted by the death penalty and the criminal justice system (including a wrongfully-convicted death row exoneree, […]