Because it is racist...
    Because it punishes the poor...
        Because it kills the innocent...
            Because it doesn't prevent crime...
                Because it is barbaric...

                    It is time to end the death penalty.

December 1, 2006

World AIDS Day Community Forum

12 pm in the Window Lounge, Building 38

Co-Sponsored by Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Drug Policy Reform Group of UDC, Equal Justice Works, Federalist Society, Latino/a Law Students Association, LGBT Support Association of UDC, National Lawyers Guild, Outlaw, Phi Alpha Delta

Film Screening:

Busted, A Citizens Guide to Police Encounters

Friday, October 27th at 12:00 p.m.
Room 205, Building 39

Co-sponsored by Drug Policy Reform Group of UDC

Wednesday, October 25th at 12:15 p.m.
Planning Discussion for Death Penalty Teach-in Day at the end of November
UDC Building 39, Room 205

The DC Chapter of Campaign to End the Death Penalty hosts

Witness to an Execution
A national anti-death penalty tour, featuring Barbara Becnel

Thursday, October 19th at 7 PM

St. Stephen's Church at 16th St. and Newton N.W. (Columbia Heights Metro on the Greenline)

One year after the execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams the debate over the death penalty continues to rage on. Over the past year, states across the nation have suspended exectutions citing evidence that lethal injection causes extreme suffering to prisoners. Join the Campaign to End the Death Penalty to hear first hand accounts of the barbaric death penalty and how we can organize to end executions once and for all.

Featuring:

Barbara Becnel spearheaded the national campaign to save Stanley "Tookie" Williams from execution last fall. As a witness to Stan's personal transformation on death row, his struggle for justice and his execution, Barbara's story is incredibly moving. In her own words, "On December 13, 2005, I stood and watched for 35 agonizing minutes while the state of California tortured my friend Stan Tookie Williams to death. I want people to know what I saw and to join the growing movement to end the death penalty in this country."

See: http://www.counterpunch.org/becnel09262006.html

Tuesday, October 10th at 7:00 p.m.

Journey of Hope...from Violence to Healing

In recognition of World Day to End the Death Penalty, Journey of Hope co-founders
Bill Pelke, a murder victim family member, and George White, a murder victim family member and death row exoneree, discuss alternatives to the death penalty.

University of the District of Columbia
UDC David A. Clarke School of Law • 4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Building 39, Second Floor, Room 205
Metro: Red line to Van Ness-UDC • Bus: L2, L4, H2

Wednesday, October 4th at 1:00 p.m.
Discussion: Strategies for Addressing Racial Disparities in the Death Penalty
UDC Building 39, Room 205

Wednesday, September 20th at 1:00 p.m.
Discussion: Racial Disparities in Sentencing and the Death Penalty
UDC Building 39, Room 204

Wednesday, September 6th at 1:00 p.m.
General Meeting
UDC Building 39, Room 205

STOP EXECUTIONS! JUSTICE FOR VERNON EVANS!
Panel Discussion on the Death Penalty in Maryland

• Richard Dieter, Death Penalty Information Center
• Jerome Nickerson, Death Row Attorney
• Avis Belk, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, DC Chapter
• Evangelist Dr. Gwen Bates, Sister of Vernon Evans
• Evans' Family Clemency Video: Produced by Vernon Evans' family; Governor Ehrlich refused to watch.
• Mike Stark, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, DC Chapter

Wednesday, 7pm
April 26, 2006
at the University of the District of Columbia
UDC David A. Clarke School of Law • 4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Building 39, Second Floor, Room 205
Metro: Red line to Van Ness-UDC • Bus: L2, L4, H2

This free event is sponsored by the D.C. and UDC Chapters of the CAMPAIGN TO END THE DEATH PENALTY. For more information, please contact cedp_dc@hotmail.com or udc.cedp@yahoo.com

Read Vernon Evans' words on the first ever death row blog
www.meetvernon.blogspot.com

Thursday, April 6th at 12:30 p.m.
General Meeting
UDC Building 39, Room 204

February 27th at Noon
University of the District of Columbia

UDC-CEDP will be holding a demonstration in front of the University of the District of Columbia, located at 4200 Connecticut Ave., NW, with the goal of educating our fellow University students and neighborhood residents about the death penalty.

Tuesday, February 28th at 12:15 p.m.
UDC Building 39, Room 201

Movie Screening:
"DEADLINE"
A Death Row Documentary

What would you do if you discovered that 13 people slated for execution had been found innocent?

That was exactly the question that Illinois Governor George Ryan faced in his final days in office. He alone was left to decide whether 167 death row inmates should live or die. In the riveting countdown to Ryan’s decision, Deadline details the gripping drama of the state’s clemency hearings. Documented as the events unfolded, Deadline is a compelling look inside America’s prisons, highlighting one man’s unlikely and historic actions against the system.

Deadline “makes an inrrefutable argument: Our criminal justice system is so flawed... that we cannot be sure of the guilt of many of those we put to death.” –Roger Ebert

Tuesday, February 28 th at 12:15 p.m.
UDC Building 39, Room 201
Food will be served.

Contact:

For information and/or to be added to our UDC School of Law Chapter announcement list:
udc.cedp (at) yahoo.com

See also
CEDP Washington, DC - Maryland Chapter E-mail List:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cedp_dc/