Palmetto Journey of Hope: Lander University (Greenwood, SC)
Tue, Oct 22
|Lander University | LC 200
Join us for a conversation about the death penalty with Suzanne Bosler, a murder victim family member, and Yvonne Patterson Johnson, a death row family member.
Time & Location
Oct 22, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM EDT
Lander University | LC 200, 320 Stanley Ave, Greenwood, SC 29649, USA
Guests
About the event
The Palmetto Journey of Hope is a collaboration between SCADP and Journey of Hope...From Violence to Healing. It is a speaking series empowering the voices of murder victim family members towards the abolition of the death penalty. Together with other anti-death penalty voices (former death row residents, death row family members, department of corrections employees, capital defense lawyers, and law enforcement), the Journey of Hope has sparked legislative change across the country.
About the Speakers:
SueZann Bosler is a sought-after speaker and Board member of Journey of Hope...From Violence to Healing. In 1987, she lost her father, Rev. Billy Bosler, to an intruder in her home and was herself stabbed and left for dead. She worked for more than ten years to fulfill the promise she had made to her father, that if he were ever murdered, the killer should not be executed. After two death sentences were overturned on…