Interfaith Arts Fest Focuses on Capital Punishment - Georgetown College

Acclaimed author and activist Sister Helen Prejean will make an appearance on the Hilltop this month for a dramatized reading as part of the Festival of Interfaith Arts at the Davis Performing Arts Center.

The Nov. 23 performance will highlight Prejean’s  book, “The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account to Wrongful Executions” (Random House, 2004), her latest in a string of works speaking out against capital punishment.

“The death penalty lays bare the deepest wounds of our nation: our racism, our assault on poor people and our ready instinct to use violence to solve social problems” she said. “We are not worthy of the death penalty. We are not worthy of this.”