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Death Penalty Education Events in Missouri (livestream available)
April 8 @ 8:00 am – April 11 @ 5:00 pm EDT
CMN is traveling to Missouri for several death penalty education events which will be held across the state. All events are free and open to the public. Join us for one or more of these events!
Your advocacy and efforts are particularly needed in Missouri, an active death penalty state. Consider attending one of these events and inviting your colleagues, friends, and family members to join you in learning more about the importance of the anti-death penalty movement, and how you can be involved in working toward abolition.
If you don’t live in Missouri, the breakfast panel hosted on April 11 by the Incarnate Word Foundation will be livestreamed. Register here.
Rockhurst University | Is Justice Served? Stories of Death Row.
Tuesday, April 8 | 7 p.m.
Pedro Arrupe Auditorium | 5351 Forest Ave. | Kansas City, MO 64110
Featuring:
- Joe Amrine, Missouri death row exoneree
- Larry Komp, Capital Habeas Unit Chief, Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Missouri
- Rev. Lauren Bennett, death row spiritual advisor
- Craig Watz, attorney and assistant professor of Criminal Justice
- Emmjolee Mendoza Waters, CMN’s Director of Death Penalty Abolition Program
St. Louis University Law School Event
Thursday, April 10 | 12-1 p.m.
Scott Hall, Room 1074 | 100 N Tucker Blvd. | St. Louis, MO 63101
Featuring:
- Herman Lindsey, Florida death row exoneree
- Larry Komp, Capital Habeas Unit Chief, Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Missouri
- Joe Welling, attorney
- Emmjolee Mendoza Waters, CMN’s Director of Death Penalty Abolition Program
St. Louis University | Is this justice? Stories of Death Row.
Thursday, April 10 | 4-5 p.m.
Busch Student Center, Room 251 | 20 N Grand Blvd. | St. Louis, MO 63103
Featuring:
- Herman Lindsey, Florida death row exoneree
- Rev. Lauren Bennett, death row spiritual advisor
- Emmjolee Mendoza Waters, CMN’s Director of Death Penalty Abolition Program
Incarnate Word Foundation | Death Penalty Discussion Panel
Friday, April 11 | Doors open 8:15 a.m. | Breakfast at 8:30 a.m.
Forest Park Golf Club | 6141 Lagoon Dr. | St. Louis, MO 63112
Featuring:
- Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski, who will offer a special benediction
- Larry Komp, Capital Habeas Unit Chief, Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Missouri
- Rev. Kristen Leslie, Faculty Emerita, Eden Theological Seminary St. Louis
- Sr. Elizabeth Riebschlaeger, CCVI, Texas Anti-Death Penalty Activist
- Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy, Executive Director of Catholic Mobilizing Network
- Sr. Helena Monahan, CCVI, Incarnate Word Foundation Project Manager, Panel Moderator