What would you do? If someone killed a person you love? If you were accused & convicted of a crime you did not commit?

7pm, Thursday, February 9, 2012

Trinity United Methodist Church

90 Church St., Prince Frederick, MD

The CALVERT INTERFAITH COUNCIL invites you to hear two men share their harrowing experiences and their path to redemption, forgiveness & healing.

Kirk Bloodsworth was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in Maryland for a crime he had nothing to do with. An honorably discharged Marine and lifelong Waterman on the Chesapeake Bay, in 1993 he became the first person exonerated and freed from death row in the United States using DNA technology. “If this can happen to me it can happen to anyone.”

Ricardo Wiggs and his wife Sharon were shot in their home in Clinton in 1992. Sharon died. Ricardo lived to raise their daughters and has become a leading voice for victims and victim survivors in Maryland. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Maryland Crime Victims Resource Center*. “I want to be known as a survivor, not a victim.”
*For identification purposes only. The Maryland Crime Victims Resource Center does not take a position on the issue of capital punishment.

The Maryland legislature is considering a bill to repeal the death penalty and is also looking at ways to better meet the needs of murder victims family members in our communities. The CALVERT INTERFAITH COUNCIL and Maryland Citizens Against State Executions are pleased to present these powerful Voices of Experience, and invite you to learn more about the issues now before our policy makers in Annapolis.