Intended Audience
What: The Center for the Study of Democracy will welcome Diann Rust-Tierney, executive director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Ms. Rust-Tierney will address race as the delineating marker of America's caste system and how capital punishment supports and sustains that caste system that oppresses us all. She will discuss issues such as the consistent unfairness of the application of the death penalty in the United States, how it reinforces that some lives are worth more than others, and address why it is necessary for the United States to abolish the death penalty. As executive director of NCADP since 2004, Ms. Rust-Tierney leads and directs the organization’s programs and serves as a national spokesperson for the organization and the national movement to eliminate capital punishment. She served as the director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Capital Punishment Project from 1991 to 2004, as the ACLU’s chief legislative counsel/associate director from 1994-2004, and as the ACLU’s legislative counsel from 1985 to 1991. She holds a JD from the University of Maryland School of Law and a BA from the College of Wooster.
Where: This is a virtual event. Please register for the event at the following zoom registration link: (https://smcm.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtc-2vqTwpHNDhtvFuoyE-6ms1oQ986VFa)
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Center for the Study of Democracy
Antonio Ugues
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Center for the Study of Democracy
Presentation
Registration information
This is a virtual event. Please register for the event at the following zoom registration link: (https://smcm.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtc-2vqTwpHNDhtvFuoyE-6ms1oQ986VFa)