VADP

THE BIG READ ROANOKE VALLEY

presents

Anatomy of an Execution

Sunday, March 7, 2010

2:00 PM

Roanoke College

Pickle Lounge in the Colket Center

220 High Street

Salem, VA 24153

Co-authors Todd Peppers and Laura Anderson will speak on the story in their book, Anatomy of an Execution, concerning the life, trial and execution of a Virginia juvenile offender. Peppers, an associate professor in the Public Affairs Department at Roanoke College, will explore larger issues such as the death penalty. Anderson, the condemned man’s high school teacher, will speak on her experience as his spiritual advisor while he was on death row.

Review of the book:

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/15/AR2010011501392.html

Free admission

Park in the faculty lot behind Olin Hall. For campus map, http://www.roanoke.edu/map/

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Justice in Black and White

Thursday, March 25, 2010

6:30 PM

Gainsboro Library

15 Patton Ave., NW

Roanoke, VA 24016

Radford University Criminal Justice professor Mary Atwell will examine the death penalty and the law in Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying.  Dr. Atwell is the author of three books on criminal justice issues: Wretched Sisters: Examining Gender and Capital Punishment, Evolving Standards of Decency: Popular Culture and Capital Punishment, and Equal Protection of the Law?: Gender and Justice in the United States.

Free admission