Events Calendar
A Conversation with Exoneree Juan Melendez
- Date:
- March 3, 2022
- Start:
- 5:30pm
- End:
- 7:00pm
- Save to your calendar:
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- Location:
- TNH 2.140 (Wright Classroom)
- Event type:
- Panel Discussion / Speaker Series
- For more info:
- https://www.witnesstoinnocence.org/single-post/juan-melendez
Juan Melendez was exonerated in Florida in 2002 after serving 17 years on death row. Today, he's active in the innocence and death penalty abolition movements. Recently, he campaigned in support of a bill to end qualified immunity in his home state of New Mexico and spoke out in support of Julius Jones in Oklahoma. He was also featured in a March 2020 National Geographic article on death row exonerees.
Juan will join us to speak with students about his experience as a death row exoneree.
- Specific audiences:
- Texas Law students
- Faculty
- Staff
- Sponsored by:
- Capital Punishment Center
- Public Defense Group
If you need an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the sponsor listed above or the Texas Law Special Events Office at specialevents@law.utexas.edu no later than seven business days prior to the event.