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Famed anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean will be in Kansas on Thursday, March 3. Prejean is the author of the book Dead Man Walking, on which the film of the same name was based. The program will include a staged reading from the book and a discussion led by Sister Helen herself. The event will be held at the Andrew J. and Georgia Neese Gray Theatre in the … [Read more...] about Famed anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean to visit Kansas!

In 1990, a Texas jury convicted Claude Jones of murder, and he was executed in 2000. Jones and another ex-convict, Danny Dixon, had stopped at a convenience store. One of the men entered the store and shot a man inside, while the other remained outside in the car. Jones and Dixon argued about which was the shooter, but Jones was eventually convicted of pulling the trigger on … [Read more...] about DNA Test Casts Doubt on Texas Execution