Voices of Experience on the Death Penalty — The Raw Live Videos
4 min readJul 8, 2018
The 2018 Starvin’ for Justice speakers were all broadcast on Facebook Live. They are listed in the order in which they spoke, and most of the talks are complete. Check them out below!
Click on the link giving the video # & date, or when the speaker is not first in a particular video, click on the (minute:second) indicated in the listing to find the start point. For most, you can click on their name for more background on the speaker.
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(With apologies for general errors and foibles due to non-professional equipment and production team in producing these broadcasts…)
- Musical Interludes with Constantine Efantis, Music Director, St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Washington, DC
- Ngozi Ndulue — Senior Director of Criminal Justice Programs, NAACP (starts at 8:10)
- Rick Wiggs — Husband of Sharon Wiggs, Board Member, Maryland Crime Victims Resource Center (org listed for ID purposes only) (0:01)
- Constantine Efantis (24:01)
- Rick Halperin — Professor of History & Human Rights (33:01)
- Jen Marlowe — Author of I Am Troy Davis (continues on next video)
- Jen Marlowe — Author of I Am Troy Davis (Continued)
- Jerry Givens — Retired Virginia corrections officer who oversaw 62 Virginia executions (11:18)
- Bob Gross — Author of The Death Penalty — A Guide for Christians (23:00)
- David Kaczynski — Brother of the Unabomber (27:30) (sadly, lost power at end)
- Musical Interlude with Charlie King & Friends (2:45)
- Murphy Davis — Open Door Community (7:05)
- Sr. Joan Campbell — Sisters of Providence (17:30)
- Ellen Murphy — Musical interlude (35:30)
- Abraham J. Bonowitz talks about Sam Reese Sheppard (39:03)
- Terry Rumsey — Executive Director, Witness to Innocence (0:01)
- Shujaa Graham — Member of Witness to Innocence: Exonerated California Death Row Survivor (12:20)
- Phyllis Prentice — Musical interlude (30:31)
- Shane Claiborne — Author of Saving Grace: How the death penalty killed Jesus and why it’s killing us (35:57)
- Art Laffin — Brother of Paul (52:50)
- Musical Interlude with Charlie King & Friends (0:01)
- Phone call with Hasan, LIVE from Death Row (3:02)
- Comments by Abraham J. Bonowitz, Death Penalty Action (21:20)
Video 8 — July 1, 2018 (presented inside due to oppressive heat)
- Lorig Charkoudian — Long-time member & friend of the Abolitionist Action Committee and newly elected Maryland State Delegate (0:01)
- Musical Interlude with Charlie King & Friends (9:52)
- Jennifer, Donald & Lauren from the Intercommunity Justice & Peace Center (13:52)
- Phyllis Pautrat, LCSW — Mitigation Specialist (19:45)
- Ellen Murphy — Musical Interlude (42:31)
- Emma Tacke — Catholic Mobilizing Network (46:04)
- Randy Gardner — Brother of Ronnie Gardner, executed by firing squad in Utah in 2010 (50:52)
- Dina Windle — Surviving victim who forgave Marcel Williams and worked to save him before he was executed in Arkansas in 2017 (1:02:15)
- Musical Interlude with Charlie King & Friends (1:33:16)
- Bill Pelke — Grandson of Ruth, Founder of Journey of Hope… From Violence to Healing (1:36:33)
- Musical Interlude with Charlie King & Friends (1:59:01)
- Introduction by Alice Quinlan of Lindy Lou — Juror #2 — Special Washington DC advanced screening of this new POV film, which will be aired nationally on PBS on July 16. (2:02:34)
- Talk Back with Lindy
- Welcome and Musical Interlude with Charlie King & Friends (0:01)
- Gregory Joseph — National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (5:50)
- Charlie King — Full set (10:32) (Joined by Rev. Dr. Jack Sullivan Jr. here)
- Robert Dunham — Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center (33:05)
- Krissy Roth — Senior Program Officer for Criminal Justice, Amnesty International USA (0:01)
- Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy, Executive Director of the Catholic Mobilizing Nework (6:30)
- Magdaleno M. Rose-Avila — Executive Director, Death Penalty Focus (13:26)
- Jimmy Dennis — Pennsylvania Death Row Survivor (31:54)
- James Basden, whose brother Ernest was executed in 2002. (57:56)
- Comments by Abraham J. Bonowitz, Death Penalty Action followed phone call with Hasan, LIVE from Death Row by (1:03:09)
- Rev. Dr. Jack Sullivan, Jr. — Brother of Jennifer, Chairman, Ohioans to Stop Executions (1:25:24)
- SueZann Bosler — Daughter of Rev. Billy Bosler, co-founder, Journey of Hope… From Violence to Healing (1:41:58)
- George White — Husband of Char, Journey Ambassador, Co-Founder: Journey of Hope… From Violence to Healing (2:05:28)
- Closing song by Charlie King (2:23:18)
Learn more about this event and plan to join us next year at Abolition.org!
