Beyond Impact Panel Discussion “The Future of California’s Death Penalty” | Presidio

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Join The Advocacy Fund and Tides for a panel discussion examining two competing California death penalty propositions that will be on the ballot this November. Drinks and hearty appetizers will be provided.

Free, but an RSVP is required. Tickets to dial-in for this meeting are also available.

California has more death row inmates than any other state with over 700 individuals on Death Row. California’s death penalty system is dysfunctional, exorbitantly expensive, and disproportionately affects people of color.

This November, voters will face competing death penalty ballot measures. Prop 62 responds to this failed system by replacing it entirely with life imprisonment without parole. Prop 66 responds to this failure with a sweeping array of convoluted proposed “fixes.”

Featuring:

• Ana Zamora, No on 66, ‎ACLU of Northern California
• Matt Cherry, Taxpayers for Sentencing Reform
• Stefanie Faucher, 8th Amendment Project
• Ricky Jackson, exoneree, Witness to Innocence

Moderated by Cristina Uribe, CA State Director, Ballot Inititative Strategy Center

Hear more about these competing ballot measures from representatives of the Yes on 62 and No on 66 campaigns, as well as the poignant personal experience of Ricky Jackson, an Ohio man who was exonerated last fall after nearly four decades in prison for a 1975 murder he didn’t commit.

With 39 years in prison, he’s believed to have served the longest time behind bars for someone wrongly incarcerated in the United States.

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