MADP has provided speakers qualified to discuss capital punishment from many different perspectives. We have hosted: parents of persons on death row, death row exonerees, families of murder victims, attorneys who have defended death row inmates, law enforcement professionals, clergy who bring a moral and theological perspective, educators who bring a social and philosophical perspective, and witnesses to executions.​​

We are happy to join or facilitate: panel discussions, lectures and Q&As, informal discussions, study groups and book clubs, film screenings, workshops, and more. 

Various issues we focus on include: the status of pending executions, wrongful convictions and innocence, concerns about lethal injection, how the death penalty prolongs the agony of victims’ families, how the death penalty focuses on vengeance and retribution rather than healing, the death penalty as an extension of racial terror lynching, and regional patterns in racial terror lynching and execution across the state.​

Consider these programs for your group or church:

• A general overview of the death penalty

• The costliness of the death penalty

• The moral problem of the death penalty – it’s ineffective, it’s not a deterrent

• Unequal administration and arbitrariness: race and income discrimination in the death penalty

• Killing innocent people

• Witness of parents of persons under death sentences

• Witness of chaplains working with death-sentenced prisoners

If you would like to book Missouri Death Row Exonorees for a speaking engagement please view our Honorarium information below. For more information contact us.