On February 22, anti-death penalty activists DC Tedrow (editor, The New Texas Radical) and Jayson Thomas (Campaign to End the Death Penalty) will be speaking on death penalty abolition, prisoner abuse, and torture on death row at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. This event coincides with TAMUCC’s Feb. 19-24 production of The Exonerated, a play that tells the stories of six wrongfully convicted death row survivors.

In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty on the grounds that it was imposed in an arbitrary and discriminatory manner. Although it was reinstated in 1976, it still suffers from serious flaws. Lately the death penalty has faced intense scrutiny at the international, national, and state levels, as well as in Corpus Christi, where members of the Corpus Christi Moratorium Coalition have been pressing for a city council moratorium resolution.

In 2007, Texas accounted for 62 percent of all executions carried out nationally. The United States remains alone among advanced industrialized nations to implement capital punishment.

This event is free and open to the public. Please circulate this release to radical, progressive, and anti-death penalty groups in Corpus Christi.

30 Years is Enough: 7 Reasons to Abolish the Death Penalty

Friday, Feb. 22, 2008
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
6300 Ocean Drive
Bay Hall 104
5:00 to 7:30 p.m.

Need directions? Check out the campus map and Bay Hall page. More information about TAMUCC's production of The Exonerated can be found on TAMUCC Theatre's Performances and Events page.