Dead Man Walking author to discuss capital punishment at Aurora Forum

Sister Helen Prejean, whose encounters with a Death Row inmate she met in her Louisiana prison ministry inspired her to write Dead Man Walking (1993), will appear at the Aurora Forum discussing "Arbitrary Convictions: Capital Punishment in the United States," on Thursday, Oct. 27, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium. Prejean will be joined by Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Marshall, the co-founder of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago. The event will be moderated by William Abrams, a partner at the Palo Alto law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Abrams, who currently is working to overturn the convictions of two Alabama Death Row inmates, teaches courses on children's legal issues and the death penalty in Stanford's Program in Human Biology. The event is free and open to the public. More information is available at http://auroraforum.stanford.edu.

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