A Story of Ultimate Forgiveness

What: A Story of Ultimate Forgiveness
When: Sunday, January 17, 2010, 1:30pm
Where: Epiphany Community Center

The Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and Church of Epiphany are partnering to share a story of ultimate forgiveness. Vicki Schieber of the Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death Penalty will speak at 1:30 pm on Sunday, Jan. 17 at Epiphany’s Community Center.

Vicki’s daughter, Shannon, was raped and murdered in 1998 while finishing her first year of graduate school on a full scholarship at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Her killer was not arrested until 2002. He is serving several life sentences without parole in Colorado and Pennsylvania not only for Shannon’s rape and murder but for 13 other sexual assaults as well.

As Catholics, Vicki and her husband, both Maryland residents, never sought the death penalty. Vicki testified in support of a Maryland bill that would extend that state’s moratorium on executions and create a commission to study the way the death penalty is imposed.

“The death penalty is against our religion, a belief system in which life is held to be sacred,” she said. She now teaches Catholic Social Teaching on the Death Penalty with the Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death Penalty. She has been featured on “Dateline NBC” and is the recipient of the Fannie Mae Foundation Good Neighbor Award.

For additional information, contact KCADP Coordinator Kaye Gallagher at 636-1330.