Lindy Lou Wells, the subject of the 2017 documentary 鈥淟indy Lou, Juror Number 2,鈥� will attend a free screening of the film at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12 in the Kemper Recital Hall inside Spratt Hall at 含羞草社区. A reception in the Walter Cronkite Memorial in the Spratt Hall Atrium precedes the screening at 6 p.m., and Wells will make a brief presentation after the film. The event is free and open to the public.
Lindy Lou, a woman from rural Mississippi, always thought she could easily give the death penalty. Then she sat on a jury that handed down a death sentence to a man convicted in a double homicide. Twenty years later, Lindy traveled through Mississippi and interviewed 11 jurors alongside whom she sentenced a man to death.
鈥淓very citizen in Missouri faces the possibility of participating on a capital jury, and it is a part of civic education to understand the full ramifications of this process,鈥� said Staci Pratt, executive director of Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, one of the organizations hosting the screening. 鈥淓very death sentence has a lasting human cost and impacts every individual in its proximity, including jurors.鈥�
The event is co-hosted by the Legal Studies Association at Missouri Western.
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