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Bryan Stevenson: We Need to Talk About an Injustice

Bryan Stevenson: We Need to Talk About an Injustice

In an engaging and personal TED Talk — with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks — human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a... MORE

Bridges to Life News Story

Fox News Channel 29 in San Antonio, TX aired 2 news reports featuring the work of the Bridges to Life Restorative Justice Program. Bridges To Life is a faith-based nonprofit 501 (c) 3 corporation founded in November 1998, with a primary... MORE

Capital Punishment: The Death of Morality

By the Catholic Conference of Kentucky This two-part video produced by the Catholic Conference of Kentucky offers an introduction to the death penalty. The first video presents, among other things, facts about cost to the taxpayers. The second video examines... MORE

Chaplain on Atlanta’s Death Row

From FOX 5 Atlanta (September 2011) Few people have a better understanding of what life is like on death row than the chaplains who visit with the condemned. FOX 5 Atlanta’s Russ Spencer spoke with Father Austin Fogarty, who goes to... MORE

Dead Man Walking Trailer

Dead Man Walking tells the story of the transformational relationship between Sr. Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ and Matthew Poncelet, a prisoner on death row. It is directed by Tim Robbins and features Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. The film, which... MORE

Death in Dixie

This informative video about the use of the death penalty in the US state of Alabama indicates how it is discriminatory on the basis of race. A majority Christian evangelical state, Alabama has executed more people per capita than any... MORE

The Death Penalty: No Justice, No Healing, No Closure

By the Indiana Catholic Conference This video, produced by the Indiana Catholic Conference, examines the death penalty from the perspective of chaplains who work with prisoners on death row. It shares some of the stories of people who are on... MORE

God Cries When We Sentence Youth

A video which presents the effects of the juvenile criminal justice system, especially for juveniles who are sentenced to life in prison, and the ways in which they encounter God through the work of prison ministers. Video provided by the Healing... MORE

From Wall Street to Death Row

The following is an interview filmed in Phoenix with Patricia King, called “From Wall Street to Death Row.” It features death row minister, noted author and CMN speaker Dale Recinella. In it, Dale recounts the experiences which led him to take... MORE

Interview With An Executioner

This short video tells the story of Mississippi death row penitentiary superintendent Don Cabana. He shares moving testimony about his experiences in Mississippi and in Florida; he talks of how, ultimately, God would judge him for his role in the... MORE