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Bryan Stevenson: We Need to Talk about an Injustice
In an engaging and personal Technology, Entertainment, Design (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:... MORE
Bridges to Life News Story
Fox News Channel 29 in San Antonio, Texas, aired two 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
David R. Dow: Lessons from Death Row Inmates
What does it feel like to know exactly the day and time you’re going to die because the state has decided for you? As a death penalty attorney in Texas, the state with the highest death penalty rate in the... MORE
Connecticut’s Death Penalty Is Over
On April 25, 2012 Connecticut became the 5th state in 5 years – and the 17th overall – to get rid of its death penalty. The success was predicated on the incredible coalition of nearly 200 murder victims’ families who... MORE
Dead Man Walking Trailer
Dead Man Walking tells the story of the transformational relationship between 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 came... MORE
Death in Dixie
This informative video about the use of the death penalty in 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 other state. Half of... MORE
Execution Chronicles
On April 5, 2002, Mark Stroman, a 32-year-old stonecutter from Dallas, entered Texas’s death row for the murder of Vasudev Patel, an Indian immigrant and gas station owner in Mesquite, Texas. Patel was Stroman’s third and final victim. In the... MORE
The Final Gift: A Documentary
While completing the memoir, Coffee Shop God, Thérèse was drawn to the story and voice of her brother’s killer. She questioned – what was his life like before the night he shot Steve? What is his life like now in prison,... 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