Live from Death Row: Th. Apr. 16

[Julien Ball]

Stop on the Campaign to End the Death Penalty’s National Tour:

Live From Death Row!

"These are America's condemned, who bear a stigma far worse than 'prisoner.' These are America's death row residents: men and women who walk the razor's edge between half-life and certain death."—Mumia Abu-Jamal, Live From Death Row

Thursday, April 16, 3 PM
Harold Washington College, R. 308
30 E. Lake Street (at State)

Local Speakers include:
*Darby Tillis, Illinois’ first exonerated death row prisoner
*Marlene Martin, National Director of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty
*A live call-in from his cell by an Illinois prisoner and Chicago police torture victim

Sponsored locally by the Campaign to End the Death Penalty-Chicago and the Harold Washington College Socialist Club
For more information, call 773-955-4841 or email jul...@nodeathpenalty.org

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The Campaign to End the Death Penalty has launched a national speaking tour, "Live From Death Row," featuring the voices of death row prisoners, live from their prison cell. Death sentences de-humanize the condemned, justifying the state-sponsored murder of the poor, the innocent and people of color. Death rows isolate those sentenced to die, denying them human contact and hope for justice. In our "Live From Death Row" tour, the voices of death row prisoners will reach from behind the walls to share their stories of loss, injustice, struggle, and hope for an end to the death penalty. At a time when the national chorus against the death penalty continues to grow, these voices are critical for the movement on the outside.

The tour highlights death row prisoners speaking live over speaker-phone, including:

• Pennsylvania death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, author of numerous books, including My Life in the Party and Live From Death Row
• California death row prisoner Kevin Cooper who came within 3 1/2 hours of being executed before he won a stay of execution
• Abolitionist
• John Booth-El, on death row in Maryland for 25 years
• Troy Davis, on death row in Georgia, who came within hours of execution last year
• Ronaldo Hudson, former Illinois death row prisoner, now sentenced to life without parole
• Tennessee death row prisoner Timothy McKinney whose case was recently heard in the TN Criminal Court of Appeals
• Former death row prisoner and torture victim Stanley Howard, still imprisoned in Illinois, and contributor writer to the New
  

Other Tour speakers will include Martina Correia, sister of Troy Anthony Davis, Innocent on Georgia's Death Row; Barbara Becnel, who witnessed the execution of her long-time friend and collaborator California death row prisoner Stanley Tookie Williams; former death row prisoners Lawrence Hayes and Darby Tillis; Yusef Salaam, CEDP Board Member and exonerated in the Central Park jogger case; Derrel Myers, Board Member of the CEDP and Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights, and the father of murder victim JoJo White; hip-hop collective the Welfare Poets, who released an anti-death penalty compilation Cruel & Unusual Punishment in 2007.


More info can be found at http://www.nodeathpenalty.org/.

 
Endorsers: Amnesty International USA, Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights, Prison Radio, Stanley Tookie Williams Legacy Network, the Welfare Poets, Witness to Innocence

[Julien Ball]

Stop on the Campaign to End the Death Penalty’s National Tour:

Live From Death Row!

"These are America's condemned, who bear a stigma far worse than 'prisoner.' These are America's death row residents: men and women who walk the razor's edge between half-life and certain death."—Mumia Abu-Jamal, Live From Death Row

Thursday, April 16, 3 PM
Harold Washington College, R. 308
30 E. Lake Street (at State)

Local Speakers include:
*Darby Tillis, Illinois’ first exonerated death row prisoner
*Marlene Martin, National Director of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty
*A live call-in from his cell by an Illinois prisoner and Chicago police torture victim

Sponsored locally by the Campaign to End the Death Penalty-Chicago and the Harold Washington College Socialist Club
For more information, call 773-955-4841 or email jul...@nodeathpenalty.org

__________________________________________________________________________________

The Campaign to End the Death Penalty has launched a national speaking tour, "Live From Death Row," featuring the voices of death row prisoners, live from their prison cell. Death sentences de-humanize the condemned, justifying the state-sponsored murder of the poor, the innocent and people of color. Death rows isolate those sentenced to die, denying them human contact and hope for justice. In our "Live From Death Row" tour, the voices of death row prisoners will reach from behind the walls to share their stories of loss, injustice, struggle, and hope for an end to the death penalty. At a time when the national chorus against the death penalty continues to grow, these voices are critical for the movement on the outside.

The tour highlights death row prisoners speaking live over speaker-phone, including:

• Pennsylvania death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, author of numerous books, including My Life in the Party and Live From Death Row

• California death row prisoner Kevin Cooper who came within 3 1/2 hours of being executed before he won a stay of execution

• Abolitionist

• John Booth-El, on death row in Maryland for 25 years

• Troy Davis, on death row in Georgia, who came within hours of execution last year

• Renaldo Hudson, former Illinois death row prisoner, now sentenced to life without parole

• Tennessee death row prisoner Timothy McKinney whose case was recently heard in the TN Criminal Court of Appeals
• Former death row prisoner and torture victim Stanley Howard, still imprisoned in Illinois, and contributor writer to the New