On World Day Against the Death Penalty, a panel titled: “Other Voices: A Conversation About the Death Penalty” will be a moderated panel discussion about the death penalty in Alabama from people directly impacted by the process or working with individuals that are directly impacted by it.
Panelists include:
- Gary Drinkard, Death Row Exonoree
- LeAndrew Hood, organizer and eldest son of Rocky Myers
- Lee Hedgepeth, Investigative Journalist
- Alison Mollman, Legal Director at the ACLU of Alabama
- Father Manuel Williams, Resurrecton Catholic Missions of the South
This event is hosted by the Alabama Post-Conviction Relief Project and the ACLU of Alabama.
The Alabama Post-Conviction Relief Project (APCRP): APCRP started in 2004. It is the only organization of its kind operating in Alabama. The Project’s mission is to address the inequities in Alabama’s capital punishment system by recruiting, training, and providing resources for volunteer counsel to represent Death Row prisoners in state post-conviction. The Project coordinates investigation and Project funds pay for the costs of state court litigation, including experts’ and witnesses’ costs. If unsuccessful in state court, these Death Row clients will at least have had their constitutional issues properly litigated and preserved in state court.
