What Would YOU Do?
If someone killed a person you love?
If you were accused & convicted of a crime you did not commit?
Presenting…
VOICES of EXPERIENCE
7pm, Friday, February 24, 2012
St. Mark's on the Hill Episcopal Church
1620 Reisterstown Rd, Pikesville, MD
Exit 20 South from 695 beltway, church is 1/2 mile on the right.
YOU are invited to hear two extraordinary individuals share their harrowing experiences and their
path to redemption, forgiveness & healing.
Kirk Bloodsworth was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in Maryland for a crime he had
nothing to do with. An honorably discharged Marine and lifelong Waterman on the Chesapeake Bay,
in 1993 he became the first person exonerated and freed from death row in the United States using
DNA technology. “If this can happen to me it can happen to anyone.”
Bonnita’s husband Michael was killed in a convenience store robbery in March 1994. His murder left
Bonnita and their four sons to navigate the system and get the help they needed to survive. “All of us
were devastated,” says Bonnita, “and my faith and family and friends were a tremendous support. I
believe in forgiveness and redemption. Not all victims’ families seek death.”
The Maryland legislature is considering a bill to repeal the death penalty and is also looking at ways to better
meet the needs of murder victims family members in our communities. St. Mark’s on the Hill Episcopal Church
and Maryland Citizens Against State Executions are pleased to present these powerful Voices of Experience,
and invite you to learn more about the issues now before our policy makers in Annapolis.
Co-Sponsored by St. Mark’s
on the Hill Episcopal Church
www.mdcase.org 800-973-6548
www.mdcase.org 301-779-5230
NEXT STEPS
Because Together, We Can Make Maryland the Next State to Repeal the Death Penalty
MD Legislative Session is January 11 through April 9, 2012
#1 – Please continue to pray for the success of the campaign to Repeal Maryland’s Death Penalty in 2012.
#2 – Contact your legislators. This is the single most important thing you can do. Please send a brief, handwritten note in
the postal mail ASAP. Ask your legislators to push for a vote on death penalty repeal during the 2012 legislative session,
and to vote for the bill. Find your legislators at www.mdelect.net, or call 301-779-5230 – If you live in the
Pikesville/Owings Mills/Glyndon area, you are likely in district 11. Please write to:
SENATOR ROBERT A. (BOBBY) ZIRKIN
James Senate Office Building, Room 301
11 Bladen St., Annapolis, MD 21401
And your state Delegate(s)
Find them at www.mdelect.net
#4 - Please Mark Your Calendar for the following! Details and updates will be posted at www.mdcase.org.
 February 22: Ash Wednesday Service & Press Conference in Annapolis
 February 24: “Voices of Experience” event at St. Mark’s on the Hill in Pikesville
 Attend legislative hearings and floor votes – sign up to receive announcements about yet-to-be-scheduled activities
at www.mdcase.org
#4 - Reach out to your neighborhood: Share copies of this flier with friends and neighbors and ask them to send their notes
to legislators. Put a sign in your yard or window. Table at a local event or coffee shop to get postcards signed by
constituents to their legislators. Volunteer to lead death penalty education and activism ministry in your community. Make
a donation to the campaign. Contact MDCASE (see below) for a yard sign, postcards and assistance.
MD CASE (Citizens Against State Executions)
3800A 34th St.
Mt. Rainier, MD 20712
301-779-5230
[email protected]
mdcase.org
MDCASE’s organizer for your area is Abe Bonowitz
Contact Abe at [email protected] or 800-973-6548