Event Tomorrow in Green Bay

The Peace and Justice Center at St. Norbert College will host "Faithful Citizenship: A Forum on the Death Penalty" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17th in the Fort Howard Theatre.

The event is free and open to the public.

Several speakers with perspectives on theology, political science and the death penalty will promote peaceful and faithful citizenship before the Nov. 7 elections, which include an advisory referendum about the death penalty in Wisconsin.

The keynote speakers include Hank Schultz, first assistant state public defender of Brown County; James Wiley, a St. Norbert College political science professor; and Arthur Thorsen, associate professor of mathematics at St. Norbert College. Thorsen is affiliated with Amnesty International, Wisconsin Coalition Against the Death Penalty and the American Civil Liberties Union.

For more information on the event, contact the Peace and Justice Center at (920) 403-3881, or at pjc@snc.edu. (Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette)

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