Transformative Justice Seeks The Healing Of All Parties
Our Transformative Justice series continues this Friday (11/4) at 10AM in the Multimedia Room of the Bunch Library at Belmont. Our guest is Reverend Stacy Rector, the Executive Director of Tennesseans for Alternative to the Death Penalty (TDAP) for the last sixteen years. As we’ve discussed in our exchanges with Anthony Ray Hinton, Dr. Larycia Hawkins, Rahim Buford, Justin Jones, and Reality Winner, unexamined feelings become unexamined decisions which become unexamined laws and policies. If policy is liturgy writ large, what do the liturgies of retaliation, incarceration, and killing tell us about ourselves? Transformative justice, unlike retaliatory justice, seeks the healing of all parties.
Reverend Rector is something of an authority on our theme. Having served as spiritual advisor to Steve Henley, an inmate on Tennessee’s death row who was executed on February 4, 2009, her work as an activist, ally, and advocate has placed her in close proximity and deep relationship with people whose lives are directly impacted by the destructive liturgies we fund with our resources and our presumed consent. Friday’s event is an opportunity to converse with someone who embodies our theme in the context of Tennessee, a living agent of hope among us. Please spread the word and come out.
Mostly I'd love to hear the conversation. I'm in Georgia working for abolition and not able to attend locally. Perhaps one question is: what would you like to see "beyond the death penalty?" What could it look like if we abolished the death penalty by execution and even life in prison without parole? Thank you! Cathy
Yes, and is it interactive--ask questions?