“Under Pain of Death,” a new exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City, explores the death penalty through various forms of art, focusing particularly on the human emotions involved. Beginning January 21, 2008, the exhibition offers art installations, film screenings, and lectures on a variety of aspects of the death penalty.
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York is located at:
11 E. 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022.
“The Two Lives of Napoleon Beazley” is a new play by John Fleming that explores the true story of a 17-year-old African-American defendant who was sentenced to death for a carjacking and murder in Texas. The victim was the father of a federal judge. Using a variety of factual resources, including court transcripts and media accounts, the play examines race and the criminal justice system before the Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that the death penalty for juveniles violates the Constitution. 
National Public Radio (NPR) recently featured a segment in its StoryCorps series in which a father describes how he came to forgive the man who murdered his daughter. Patricia Nuckles was murdered by Ivan Simpson in 2001 when she caught him robbing her home. Though devastated by his daughter’s murder, Hector Black wanted to learn more about his daughter’s killer.