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Juan Melendez, FL Exonerated Death Row Survivor at U of Tampa Symposium

April 7, 2017 by Mark Elliott Leave a Comment

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When:
April 13, 2017 @ 4:00 pm
2017-04-13T16:00:00-04:00
2017-04-13T16:15:00-04:00
Where:
Crescent Club, Ninth Floor of the University of Tampa Vaughn Center
401 W Kennedy Blvd
Tampa, FL 33606
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Honors Program
813-257-3545
Email
Event website

Exonerated Death Row Survivor Juan Melendez to Speak at UT Honors Symposium April 13

Imagine spending nearly two decades of your life on death row for a crime you didn’t commit. On Thursday, April 13, The University of Tampa Honors Program symposia series will welcome Juan Roberto Melendez, who will share his experience of being wrongly convicted and spending almost 18 years on Florida’s death row. His talk, titled “Presumed Guilty: Injustice, Survival and Hope on Death Row,” begins at 4 p.m. in the Crescent Club on the ninth floor of the Vaughn Center and is free and open to the public.

In 1983, in a trial that lasted just a week, Melendez was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Delbert Baker. He spent 17 years, eight months and one day on Florida’s death row until the discovery of a taped confession of the real killer 16 years after his conviction. Upon his release on Jan. 3, 2002, he became the 99th death row prisoner in the U.S. to be released with evidence of innocence since 1973 (the number is currently 157).

During his talk, Melendez will highlight the myriad of problems he feels plague the death penalty system, including its high risk and inevitability of being imposed on the innocent, its unfair and unequal application on the basis of race and ethnicity and its almost exclusive imposition on our most defenseless and vulnerable members of society — the poor.

For more information, contact the Honors Program at (813) 257-3545 or honors@ut.edu.

The University of Tampa is a private, residential university located on 110 acres on the riverfront in downtown Tampa. Known for academic excellence, personal attention and real-world experience in its undergraduate and graduate programs, the University serves 8,310 students from 50 states and 140 countries. Approximately 65 percent of full-time students live on campus, and more than half of UT students are from Florida.

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