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Forum on "Race to Execution"

15 Nov 2007 - 18:00
15 Nov 2007 - 19:00
(The following is provided by Maryland Citizens Against State Executions (MD CASE), the coalition of which LWVMD has been a member since we achieved consensus on repeal, and the subsequent adoption of repeal by LWVUS.) Thursday, November 15, 6 p.m. Race to Execution is a provocative and haunting portrait of two death row inmates – Robert Tarver of Russell County, Alabama, and Madison Hobley of Chicago –which exposes how race infects American’s criminal justice system. C. Burr Artz Public Library, CBA Community Room, 110 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Guest speakers and panelists: Dr. Charlene Dukes, president of Prince George’s Community College; Dr. Johnnie Jones, Esq., professor in the Legal Studies Program, Prince George’s Community College; Carl Snowden Esq., Director of Civil Rights for the Office of Maryland’s Attorney General; Shujaa Graham, exoneree from California’s death row; Christine Intagliata, writer, Race to Execution.