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Home » Events » Archives » May 28, 2008 - Civic Cinema: At the Death House Door, Chicago Screening and Discussion
May 28, 2008 - Civic Cinema: At the Death House Door, Chicago Screening and Discussion 
Wednesday, May 28 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Northwestern University School of Law Thorne Auditorium 375 East Chicago Avenue Chicago This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are required and can be made online. To RSVP email screening@aclu-il.org or call 312-201-9740 x307. Join us for Kartemquin Films' latest award-winning documentary, At the Death House Door, which looks at the death penalty in Texas through the eyes of prison chaplain Carroll Pickett. After the screening, there will be a discussion on the ethics and effectiveness of the death penalty and the state of the criminal justice system in the United States, featuring Carroll Pickett. He will be joined by Chicago Tribune reporter Steve Mills, filmmakers Steve James and Peter Gilbert, Ed Yohnka of the ACLU of Illinois, and Rob Warden, director of the Center for Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University. At The Death House Door tells the story of Carroll Pickett, who served 15 years as the death house chaplain to the infamous "Walls" prison unit in Huntsville and presided over 95 executions, including the world's first lethal injection. The film particularly focuses on how Pickett was affected by Carlos De Luna, one of the inmates he counseled and who is now widely-regarded as wrongfully convicted-based on evidence uncovered by Chicago Tribune reporters Steve Mills and Maurice Possley. It is a film about of the failures of the criminal justice system; about one man's spiritual and moral journey; and how this very final act of punishment does not bring closure. It was co-directed and co-produced by Steve James and Peter Gilbert. It runs approximately 94 minutes. For more information on the film, visit its official website: http://kartemquin.com/films/at-the-death-house-door. Note: Rev. Carroll Pickett will also participate in the 2008 ACLU National Membership Conference! Read more about it: http://blog.aclu.org/index.php?/archives/652-Death-Row-Chaplain-Becomes-Abolition-Activist.html.     
This program is co-sponsored by The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council, Kartemquin Films, the Center on Wrongful Convictions at the Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law, ACLU and the ACLU of Illinois. |
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