What’s at risk when ideological, political, physical and cultural borders are crossed? Find out at the 2012 January Term Speaker Series at Saint Mary’s College of California.
The featured guest speakers for the annual lecture series, which explores the theme of "Crossing Borders," includes Jeanne Woodford, who after carrying out four executions as the Director of California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), now is the Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus and leads a national effort to end the death penalty in California and the rest of the country.
Woodford says "I've killed four people for the state of California, and it didn't make anything better for anyone," will present a lecture about her personal evolution on the death penalty.
The former San Quentin Prison warden is currently pushing the Safe California law (safecalifornia.org), a new initiative that would replace capital punishment in the state with a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. She, and other supporters, are seeking 500,000 signatures by March 2012 to place the measure before voters. So far they've garnered just over 200,000 names.
