The Penalty: Columbus Premiere and Talkback with Director and Ohioans To Stop Executions

Friday, January 26, 7-9:30pm, First Community Church [North Campus], 3777 Dublin Rd.

Ohioans To Stop Executions (OTSE) is delighted to present a free screening of The Penalty. The screening will be followed by a talkback session with director Will Francome and Attorney Allen Bohnert, who is featured in the film.

The Penalty (86 minutes)

Three extraordinary people embark on journeys of recovery, discovery, and rebellion and find themselves "center stage" in the biggest capital punishment crisis in modern memory. Still in competitions and showing in Ohio for the first time, this compelling documentary film follows three individuals impacted by different aspects of the death penalty: a man recently exonerated and freed from death row as he puts his life back together, a murder victim's family as they traverse the legal process, and an attorney as he and his colleagues unsuccessfully struggle to keep their client alive.

The screening comes at an important time for the death penalty in Ohio. More than 25 executions are scheduled from now until 2022, the next being Raymond Tibbetts on February 13.

This event is free to attend and open to the public.

Hosted by Ohioans to Stop Executions.