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Bruce Jackson, SUNY Distinguished Professor will lecture about "In that Timeless Time" on April 8, 2010.
My book is called "In This Timeless Time" (Bruce Jackson is speaking) and it is basically a book of photographs
about living on death row in Texas,
what happens to people in between the moment of sentence and the final disposition of the case.
Everybody in death row is always in limbo, everybody.
In fact, that's a word many of the men there used when we talked to them. We talked about living in limbo.
A regular prisoner, someone sentenced to say a bank robbery or *** or assault or a non-capital ***
gets a sentence, you get a number of years 10 to 25, 25 to life,
But most life sentences, you could be paroled from, but death row it's a timeless time because it doesn't matter how long you are there.
I think if you are an undergraduate student, thinking about what government does, what your role in society is, what the power of society is.
If you are thinking about questions, having to do with justice itself, the death penalty is a good place to start,
and I think that I am looking forward to the discussion we have after the talk.
to hear what kind of questions people have about it and what kind of comments they have to make.
Lecture hosted by the Undergraduate Academies at the University at Buffalo. Visit http://academies.buffalo.edu. Find UB on Facebook.