Peace event at Railroad Square

Sheila Meehan and Walter Moore with visitor with questions about the death penalty.

Pictures from last night’s panel

Panel

Audience

Seeing is Not Believing: Race, Innocence and Eyewitness Misidentification

Dear Friends,
Tallahassee Citizens Against the Death Penalty is sponsoring an important panel discussion.
Seeing is Not Believing: Race, Innocence and Eyewitness Misidentification
ALAN CROTZER — spent 24 1/2 years in Florida prisons for a crime he did not commit due to eyewitness misidentification.
SETH MILLER — Executive Director, Innocence Project of Florida
DR. PATRICIA YVONNE WARREN — Asst. Professor, College of Criminology & Criminal Justice, FSU
JUVAIS HARRINGTON — Moderator, Minister and TCADP Board Member

Tuesday, April 29th @ 7:00 p.m.
Presbyterian Center of Florida State University
548 West Park Avenue
(near Park and Copeland)

Sheila Meehan, Chair

TINKERING WITH THE MACHINERY OF DEATH

April 16, 2008 — Today the U. S. Supreme Court voted 7 – 2 to reject the latest challenge to capital punishment. The issue at hand was not the death penalty itself, but the legality of the methods used to kill people. I am reminded of former Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun’s words written shortly before his retirement: “The death penalty experiment has failed. From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.” Clearly, that is all the Court was doing. Until they take up the real question of the death penalty, it will all just be tinkering. Read More