Death Penalty Focus Upcoming Events

Death Penalty Focus
870 Market St. Ste. 859 San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel. 415-243-0143 - Fax 415-243-0994 - http://www.deathpenalty.org

Upcoming Events


JANUARY 13, 2006
The State of the Death Penalty in California
What: Democratic Luncheon Club
Topic: "The state of the death penalty in California”
When: Friday, January 13th, 2005
Admission: FREE, Bring a sack lunch.
Where: Democratic Headquarters
136 Carousel Mall (Lower Level near glass elevator),
Corner of Second and G Streets, downtown San Bernardino
Who: Carolyn Boyle, coordinator, Inland Empire Chapter of Death Penalty Focus
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JANUARY 13 - FEBRUARY 10, 2006
Theatrical Release of Award-Winning Documentary "After Innocence"
The film will premiere in select cities on the following dates:

Jan. 13, 2006 - Los Angeles, NuArt Theatre
Jan. 13, 2006 - Sacramento, Crest Theatre
Jan. 20, 2006 - San Francisco, Lumiere Theatre
Jan. 20, 2006 - Berkeley, Act I & II Theatre
Feb. 10, 2006 - San Diego, Ken Cinema

For more information on the film and other theatre locations, please visit the film's website: http://www.afterinnocence.com/index.html

AFTER INNOCENCE tells the dramatic and compelling story of the exonerated - innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and then released after DNA evidence proved their innocence. The film focuses on the gripping story of seven men and their emotional journey back into society and efforts to rebuild their lives. Included are a police officer, an army sergeant and a young father sent to prison and even death row for decades for crimes they did not commit.The men are thrust back into society with little or no support from the system that put them behind bars. While the public views exonerations as success stories - wrongs that have been righted - AFTER INNOCENCE shows that the human toll of wrongful imprisonment can last far longer than the sentences served.
The film raises basic questions about human rights and society's moral obligation to the innocent and places a spotlight on the flaws in our criminal justice system that lead to wrongful conviction of the innocent. The film features exonerees Dennis Maher of Lowell, MA; Calvin Willis of Shreveport, LA; Scott Hornoff of Providence, RI; Wilton Dedge of Cocoa Beach, FL.; Vincent Moto of Philadelphia, PA; Nick Yarris of Philadelphia, PA; and Herman Atkins of Los Angeles, CA.



JANUARY 16, 2006
STATEWIDE PROTESTS AGAINST THE SCHEDULED EXECUTION OF CLARENCE RAY ALLEN
More details will be available very soon. For additional information, please visit http://www.deathpenalty.org/index.php?pid=Executions
Events will be listed at: http://www.deathpenalty.org/index.php?pid=events



JANUARY 19, 2006
SPECIAL PRE-SCREENING OF "AFTER INNOCENCE"
The Bay Area Host Committee invites you to attend the San Francisco Bay Area Premiere of "After Innocence" and Benefit for the Life After Exoneration Program and Death Penalty Focus

5:00 – 7:00pm Pre-Screening Reception
Red Devil Lounge
1695 Polk Street (at Clay)
21+ valid ID required for entry.
Food and drinks provided.

7:30pm Screening
Lumiere Theatre
1572 California Street (at Polk)

Bay Area Host Committee: Senator Don Perata, Jeff Adachi, Sara Bolder, Teresa Caffese, James Cromwell, Peter Coyote, Dave Eggers, Mike Farrell, Shelley Fabares, Larry Kramer, Pamela and Martin Krasney, Michael Laurence, Assemblyman Mark Leno, Larry Marshall, Anne and Alan Morrison, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Jennifer Orthwein, Susan Rutberg, Paul Sunshine, Sue and Dick Wollack, Frederic White, Elizabeth Zitrin, Jane Kaczmarek, Death Penalty Focus and the Life After Exoneration Program.

Co-Sponsoring Organizations: ACLU of Northern California, Active Voice, American Friends Service Committee, W. Haywood Burns Institute, Northern California Innocence Project , The Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns: Archdiocese of San Francisco, Progressive Jewish Alliance.

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! To purchase tickets on-line: http://www.deathpenalty.org/index.php?pid=events

Angel Ticket: $125. Includes one ticket to the benefit screening and talkback, the pre-screening reception and a copy of Surviving Justice, signed by Co-editors Dave Eggers and Dr. Lola Vollen.

Patron Ticket: $75. Includes one ticket to the benefit screening and talkback and the pre-screening reception.

Supporter Ticket: $50. Includes one ticket to the pre-screening reception only.

Friend Ticket: $35. Includes one ticket to the benefit screening and talkback after the film.

To pay for tickets with a check, please send checks payable to "Death Penalty Focus" and with "After Innocence" in the memo line to Death Penalty Focus, 870 Market St., Suite 859, San Francisco, CA 94102. For more information, call (415) 243-0143 or email afterinnocence [at] deathpenalty.org. Seating is limited.

The After Innocence Campaign is a strategic effort to build awareness and support for the exonerated. Campaign Partners include: Active Voice, Life After Exoneration Program, and the Innocence Project



FEBRUARY 24, 2006
SISTER HELEN PREJEAN
Author of Dead Man Walking and the Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Execution

With a special introduction by
Dean Alan Jones

Friday, February 24th
7PM
Grace Cathedral
1100 California Street
San Francisco, California 94108

No Reservations Required – Open Seating
Suggested Donation: $15
No one turned away for lack of funds.

More information: 415-243-0143
Sponsored by: California People of Faith Working Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty Focus, Amnesty International USA and Grace Cathedral.
With the support of: American Friends Service Committee and many others.



APRIL 7-9, 2006
The Faces of Wrongful Conviction:
A Conference Examining Wrongful Convictions and the Administration of the Death Penalty in California
UCLA School of Law
Los Angeles, CA

The Faces of Wrongful Conviction Conference, hosted by the UCLA School of Law, will facilitate the first-ever gathering of California's wrongfully-convicted and exonerated individuals. In addition, new research will be presented on the causes and prevalence of wrongful convictions and the systemic racial and geographic disparities in the application of the death penalty in California. The conference will also offer a series of workshops on the causes of wrongful conviction (i.e., snitch witnesses, mistaken eyewitnesses, junk science, etc.), the administration of the death penalty, and opportunities for action.

Speakers include:

-> Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, Co-Directors of the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and co-authors of Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted
-> Michael Radelet, death penalty scholar and Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado
-> Stephen Bright, Executive Director, Southern Center for Human Rights
-> Lawrence Marshall, founder of the Center on Wrongful Conviction at Northwestern Law School and Professor of Law, Stanford University
-> Robert Weisberg, Professor of Law, Stanford University
-> Richard Leo, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, UC Irvine
-> Richard Dieter, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center
-> Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama
-> Craig Haney, Author of Death by Design, Professor of Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
-> Sam Gross, Professor of Law, University of Michigan
-> Stuart Banner, Author of The Death Penalty: An American History and Professor of Law, UCLA
-> Dr. Lola Vollen, founder, Life After Exoneration Project and author of Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
-> Michael Schill, Dean, UCLA School of Law
-> Rafael Perez-Torres, Professor of Chicano Studies/English, UCLA, author of Memories of an East L.A. Outlaw: To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back
-> Ellen Kreitzberg, Director of the Death Penalty College, Santa Clara University School of Law
-> Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
-> Bill Kurtis - Invited
-> Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa - Invited
-> Ken Starr - Invited

For more information: http://www.stopwrongfulconvictions.org/






Stefanie L. Faucher
Program Director

Death Penalty Focus
870 Market St. Ste. 859
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel. 415-243-0143
Fax 415-243-0994
mailto:stefanie [at] deathpenalty.org
http://www.deathpenalty.org
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