Event

Event: “The Kansas Death Penalty: What a Waste!”

  • By Ben Jones
  • October 11, 2016

Our friends at the Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty (KCADP) have an amazing event planned for Saturday, October 22, and we wanted to make sure you heard about it!

Join KCADP for their annual Abolition Conference at 1pm on 10/22 at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church in Olathe. You’ll hear Kansans speak about the social, economic, political, and psychological costs of the death penalty in “The Kansas Death Penalty: What a Waste!”

The four panelists each have personal experience with and a unique perspective to share on the death penalty:

Pastor Darryl Burton, who was wrongfully convicted of murder, Celeste Dixon, who lost her mother to homicide, Al Terwelp, who saw his taxes go up to pay for a death penalty case, and Roger Werholtz, retired Secretary of the Kansas Department of Corrections.Please pre-register either via email to info@ksabolition.org or by calling (785) 235-2237. The event is free and open to the public, so we hope you’ll go and bring a friend!

Ben Jones was on staff at EJUSA until 2017. Before that, he was the leader of the campaign to end the death penalty in Connecticut