ATTENTION Amnesty Members at Brandeis: Next Week! ***Dead Men Still Walking*** Thursday, February 6th, 7 p.m. in Levin Ballroom, Usdan Whats it like to be sentenced to death for a crime you did not commit? Sister Helen Prejean—perhaps the most famous Roman Catholic nun in the U.S.—knows better than most. A spiritual advisor to death-row inmates for more than 25 years, she’s also America’s most famous advocate for ending the death penalty. Sister Helen says that 80 percent of those on death row live in the ten Southern states that practiced slavery, and that 80 percent of those executed are poor people who kill white people. “When people of color get killed in this country, it doesnt even hit the radar screen in district attorneys’ offices, she says. Beneath the fray of the moral debate about capital punishment sit men and women who may have been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death row. Indeed, eighteen death-row inmates have been proven innocent and exonerated by DNA testing in the United States, according to the Innocence Project. Watch the trailer of Dead Man Walking with Susan Sarandon starring as Sister Helen, and Sean Penn as a death-row convict who said he was innocent. https://youtube/watch?v=RbZz0fS7NGo
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 01:28:04 +0000
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