Event Title
Execution’s Doorstep: A Death Row Exoneree Shares His Story
Description
Juan, a death row exoneree, shares his story which highlights the many problems that plague the death penalty system, including its high risk and inevitability of being imposed on the innocent, its unfair application on the basis of race and ethnicity and its almost exclusive imposition on our most vulnerable members of society, the poor.
About the Lecturer: Juan Roberto Melendez-Colon, exonerated following 17 years on Florida's death row
Document Type
Event
Start Date
28-9-2011 12:00 PM
End Date
28-9-2011 1:00 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Death row inmates; Capital punishment--Florida; Capital punishment--Law and legislation;
Subjects – Names (LCNAF)
Meléndez, Juan, ǂd 1951-
Type
Moving image
Keywords
Death row exoneree, Death penalty system
Rights
This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws.
Language
English
Format
video/mp4
Execution’s Doorstep: A Death Row Exoneree Shares His Story
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Juan, a death row exoneree, shares his story which highlights the many problems that plague the death penalty system, including its high risk and inevitability of being imposed on the innocent, its unfair application on the basis of race and ethnicity and its almost exclusive imposition on our most vulnerable members of society, the poor.
About the Lecturer: Juan Roberto Melendez-Colon, exonerated following 17 years on Florida's death row
