The Human Reality of State Sponsored Homicide
Thursday, September 19th at 7 PM in
Transfiguration’s Adult Lounge
1815 Blackwell Rd.
Marietta, GA 30066
Come and explore the human impact of Georgia’s Death Penalty upon the condemned, their families, and upon our community. Three distinguished guest speakers will unfold three aspects of Georgia’s Death Penalty from their personal experience.
- What does our Christian faith teach us about Georgia’s death penalty?
- What are the lived realities of Georgia’s condemned and their families?
- How does Georgia’s death penalty serve justice and provide healing for the innocent, the guilty and us – the people of Georgia?
“…the Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”, and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide. Catechism of the Catholic Church #2267
Jayna Hoffacker, M.A. is the Director of Restorative Justice Ministry for the Archdiocese of Atlanta. She is the chair of the Georgia Catholics Against the Death Penalty (GACADP) committee and serves on the national board of the Multi-faith Initiative to End Mass Incarceration. Jayna holds Master’s Degrees in History from Georgia State University and Theology from Loyola University Chicago, in addition to a certification in Social Justice from the University of Dayton.
Mary Catherine Johnson has been working to end the death penalty in Georgia since 2008. She is the Director of New Hope House, a Christian ministry that works with Georgia’s death row prisoners and their families. Her responsibilities include visiting current and former death row prisoners, hosting death row families at the ministry’s guesthouse during visitation weekends and executions, and attending all capital trials and hearings in Georgia to support the defendants and their families, as well as the legal teams.
M Cathy Harmon-Christian, MTS, PhD, serves as Executive Director of Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (GFADP) as well as a board member of the Interfaith Children’s Movement (ICM).
This program is being presented by the three parish Catholic Social Teaching Ministry collaborative of Saint Joseph, Saint Ann and Transfiguration parishes of Marietta, GA.