ACLU of Kentucky

The Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty hosts speaker Ray Krone, the 98th person exonerated from Death Row. Krone was convicted and sentenced to death in 1991 for a murder committed outside of a Phoenix bar where he was an infrequent customer. In 2002, after countless appeals and eleven years in prison, he was finally exonerated on DNA evidence linking another man to the crime.

Ray travels globally to speak about the criminal justice system that undoubtedly dis-served him. 

“I would not trust the state to execute a person for committing a crime against another person,” he says.  “I knowhow the system works. I know what prison is like, I know what the judges are like, and I know what the prosecutors are like. It’s not about justice or fairness or equality. It’s absolutely wrong. Any chanceI can, whether I start with one or two people or a whole auditorium filled with people, I’ll tell them what happened to me.  Because if it happened to me, it can happen to anyone.”

Ray will be making several stops on his Witness to Innocence Tour:

• Monday, Oct. 31, 7 pm, at Thomas More College in Steigerwald Hall in the Holbrook Student Center. The college is in Crestview Hills and located at 333 Thomas More Parkway.
   
• Wednesday, Nov. 2, 6:15 pm at Bluegrass Community Technical College in Lexington be at the Oswald Auditorium (230 OB) at the Cooper Campus. BCTC is located at 470 Cooper Drive. This event is also co-sponsored by the college's Criminal Justice program and Students for Peace and Earth Justice.
   
• Thursday, Nov. 3, 7 pm at the Newman Center at the University of Kentucky. The center is located at 320 Rose Lane in Lexington.