We’re pleased to announce that one of our screenings was in the news:

The criminal justice system makes mistakes.

And as long as Kansas has the death penalty, those mistakes might cost a wrongfully convicted person not only his freedom, but his life.

That was the message Eddie Lowery hoped to send Thursday night at an anti-death-penalty event at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H. Lowery spent 10 years in a Kansas prison for the rape of woman near Manhattan. After serving his time, he was exonerated through DNA evidence in 2003.

“I believe there still are innocent men and women in prison,” Lowery said. “Possibly on death row … .”

Lowery said he wants to use his story to abolish the death penalty and work on reforms to prevent wrongful convictions.

The event was sponsored by the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri, as well as the Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty (KCADP). After the showing of the documentary “No Tomorrow,” which highlighted a death penalty case, Lowery shared his story with a panel that included other anti-death-penalty advocates.

Want to see the film? Check out our next post for some additional screenings.