Three of the 8 men to be executed are the storytellers in “On The Row”. They are: Don Davis, Stacey Johnson, and Kenneth Williams. We were with these men for 6 months and we know them to be changed from the men they were over 20 years ago. Their stories are captured in our staged reading and they are honest, soul-searching, humble. Our audiences have come to see them. Really see them. Come get to know them March 31, 2017 at 21-C Museum Hotel in Bentonville at 7:00pm. Then you decide. Who are the real monsters: them or the State?
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My brother was killed by lethal injection in Arkansas on August 8,1996. My life has never been the same since. It almost drove me insane knowing the exact date and time that my brother was going to die…knowing there was absolutely nothing I could do to stop it. I lost myself and suffer from severe PTSD, major depression and anxiety to this day. I lost everything I believed in that night,and none of the hell my family has gone through then and now, has to happen to anyone else. Life without the possibility of parole IS adequate punishment for the inmates crimes. My brother committed murder and I lost everything…my friends, my church and even my husband and when the State of Arkansas killed him, I became a victim of the crime of murder with no chance of ever seeing my justice for the loss, anguish and trauma I went and still go through.. because it was state sanctioned murder in the name of Justice! Where’s my justice? I’ve paid dearly twice for something I would never ever have condoned.The State of Arkansas killed my brother because he killed. I’m suffering tonight because the State of Arkansas is going to kill 8 death row inmates and every one of those 8 men has someone who loves them and those loved ones lives will be destroyed and some will never recover because there is no justice for us… The living victims of state sanctioned murder… So really how many lives is the state truly taking? I say many more, but we are made to feel shame because of our loved ones crime, and we suffer in silence as we pay for a crime we never committed.