Witness to Innocence is a a project of The Moratorium Campaign and a part of the Death Penalty Discourse Network, a group of organizations seeking to expand the dialogue about the death penalty in the United States.
Kurt Rosenberg is the coordinator for Witness to Innocence. You'll find his contact details on the Contact Us page.
Sister Helen Prejean became perhaps the world’s best known spokesperson against the death penalty following the publication of her 1993 book, Dead Man Walking, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was made into a major motion picture.
The founder of The Moratorium Campaign, she has been nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize and has appeared on ABC’s World News Tonight, 60 Minutes, The Oprah Winfrey Show and National Public Radio. She travels extensively, giving, on average, 140 lectures a year as she seeks to ignite public discourse on the death penalty.
In her powerful second book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, Sister Helen implores citizens to reflect on what she calls “perhaps the core moral issue of the death penalty debate . . . the injustice of executing the innocent.”
Ray Krone is the director of communications and training for Witness to Innocence. Ray grew up near York, Pennsylvania, with a loving family and many friends. He became an Air Force sergeant and later, a mail carrier, before finding himself on Arizona’s death row for a murder he did not commit.
In April 2002, after spending more than 10 years in prison, including almost three years on death row, he became the nation’s 100th death row prisoner to be exonerated and released. You can read more about Ray on the Speakers' Biographies page.