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 […]
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 […]
Join 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 […]
The House Judiciary Committee votes Tuesday 9:30 AM on a bill to end the death penalty in Pennsylvania. I'm coming to you with another ask from your friends here in […]
Art to Live By is an interactive art project that seeks to raise awareness of efforts to repeal the death penalty in Pennsylvania and engage artists and their communities in open discussion. The exhibit features artwork by death penalty activists and exonerees. Speakers Marc Bookman and Kathleen Lucas will give a talk on death penalty abolition efforts in Pennsylvania. Attendees have the opportunity to create their own artwork and send postcards to state legislators asking them to vote to end the death penalty.
This event is FREE and open to the public. East Parlor, St. Joseph's Hall
This event is sponsored in collaboration with Chestnut Hill College’s Institute for Forgiveness & Reconciliation, Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (PADP), Uplift Solutions, Drexel University’s Kline School of Law, and Amnesty International.