The Reverend Walter Everett, whose son was murdered in 1987, and Ray Krone, the 100th death row exonoree, will present their perspectives on the death penalty on Wednesday, April 2, 2008, at 7:30 p.m. in Albright College’s Klein Lecture Hall. The event, which is free and open to the public, is part of a statewide tour being organized by Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.

Walter Everett’s 24-year-old son Scott was shot and killed during an altercation in his apartment building. After hearing his expression of remorse in court, Everett began corresponding and eventually visiting with the man convicted of the murder, and, three years later, testified in support of his being released on parole.

Ray Krone grew up near York, Pa., with a loving family and many friends. A former Boy Scout and high school athlete, he became an Air Force sergeant and later, a mail carrier, before finding himself on Arizona’s death row for a murder he did not commit.

Krone was living a normal life until 1991, when Kim Ancona was murdered in a Phoenix bar where he was an occasional customer.

Although Krone refused to believe that our legal system would convict him, he was convicted, based largely on circumstantial evidence and the testimony of an “expert” witness who asserted that bite marks found on the victim matched Ray’s teeth. In 1992, he was sentenced to death, but refused to give up and continued to fight through the appeals process.

The event is co-sponsored by the Albright College Office of the Chaplain and the Communications Program.

Klein Lecture Hall is located in the Center for the Arts on the Albright College campus at 13th & Bern Streets, Reading, Pa. For more information or disabled assistance, please contact Professor Jon Bekken, Ph.D., at 610-921-7563 or jbekken@alb.edu.

Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. Albright College enrolls more than 1,650 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 500 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.