[Peace] Death Penalty Film to be Screened at Boardman's Art Theatre 1.30.05 at 4:30

[Ricky Baldwin]

--- "Rachael E. Dietkus" <rdietkus at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: "Rachael E. Dietkus" <rdietkus at hotmail.com>
> CC: rdietkus at hotmail.com
> Subject: Death Penalty Film to be Screened at
> Boardman's Art Theatre 1.30.05 at 4:30 
> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:58:04 -0600
> 
> 
> 
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> 
> Contact: Rachael Dietkus
> Deadline Event Organizer
> (312)720-7004 – cell
> rdietkus at hotmail.com
> 
> Death penalty documentary Deadline to be screened in
> Champaign, Illinois on 
> January 30 – the five-year anniversary of the
> moratorium on executions. 
> Former Illinois Gov. George H. Ryan and filmmaker
> Kirsten Johnson to be 
> present at screening.
> 
> Champaign, IL (January 20, 2005) – On Sunday,
> January 30, 2005, at 4:30 
> p.m., the YWCA of the University of Illinois will
> host a screening of the 
> death penalty documentary Deadline at Boardman’s Art
> Theatre in Downtown 
> Champaign, 126 W. Church Street. The screening falls
> on the five-year 
> anniversary of the moratorium on executions imposed
> by then Governor George 
> H. Ryan in January 2000. Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson
> and former Gov. Ryan will 
> be present at the screening for a Q & A immediately
> following the film.
> 
> Deadline delves into the hot-button topic of the
> death penalty, with 
> particular focus on the 2002 investigation initiated
> by former Republican 
> governor of Illinois, George H. Ryan, and his
> historic decision in 2003 to 
> commute the sentences of every man and woman on
> Illinois’ death row. In his 
> final days in office, former Gov. Ryan was left to
> decide whether 167 death 
> row inmates should live or die. In the riveting
> countdown to Ryan's 
> decision, Deadline details the gripping drama of the
> state's clemency 
> hearings. Documented as the events unfold, the film
> is a compelling look 
> inside America's prisons, highlighting one man's
> unlikely and historic 
> actions against the system.
> 
> The debate on the death penalty is by no means
> simple, and Deadline presents 
> a balanced picture, interviewing lawyers, anti-death
> penalty advocates, 
> politicians, and men who've been released from death
> row, all of whom are 
> lucid and articulate. But it’s testimonies from
> victims that are the most 
> emotionally wrenching – and the viewer may be
> surprised by their statements.
> 
> Tickets can be purchased online in advance for $8.00
> at 
> www.boardmansarttheatre.com.
> 
> Additional sponsors of this event include the
> Champaign County ACLU, 
> Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities,
> Gender and Women's Studies 
> Program at the U of I, City of Urbana Human
> Relations Commission, Department 
> of Speech Communication at the U of I, AWARE,
> University YMCA, Illinois 
> Disciples Foundation, Big Mouth Productions, and
> Northwestern's Center on 
> Wrongful Convictions.
> 
> 
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