Field Trip - Learning from a Former Death Row Prisoner

Lecture by Joseph Brown, former death row prisoner.

Date: Thursday October 22, ‘09

Place: Butler Boardroom, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave., Washington DC

Time: 9: 45 am to 1:15 am

Transportation: Shuttle bus to the American University campus. The bus stop is at the corner of Albemarle and Whole Foods.

Joseph Brown spent 14 years on Florida’s death row and came within hours of being executed in the electric chair. Through the efforts of Richard Blumenthal, a public interest lawyer and now the attorney general of Connecticut, he was exonerated and freed.

An interview with Joseph Brown is on pages 249-256 of “Strength Through Peace.”