The Sunny Series
It’s Time to End the Death Penalty
For Justice. For Women. For Good.
Seven films, an open-source discussion toolkit, one urgent call to end the death penalty — for justice, for women, for good.
This short-films series puts women's voices, lived experiences, and legal expertise at the heart of one of the world's most pressing human rights issues. Filmed in collaboration between Women Beyond Walls and the World Coalition Against The Death Penalty.
Sunny Series: Susan's Story
Why 'The Sunny Series'?
This film series has been created in memory of Sonia 'Sunny' Jacobs and is lovingly nicknamed 'The Sunny Series'. ‘
Wrongfully convicted in 1976 for a crime she did not commit, Sunny spent 17 years in prison, including five on death row in Florida. After her release in 1992, she dedicated her life to abolishing the death penalty, supporting the wrongfully convicted as well as all those with lived experience of incarceration. She became a public figure and recognised voice through her speeches, the play and the film adaptation of “The Exonerated,” her nonprofit, The Sunny Center Foundation, and her membership with the International Network of Formerly Incarcerated Women (INFIW) and her work with The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (WCADP).
This film series and toolkit has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union, the French Development Agency and Global Affairs Canada. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of WOMEN BEYOND WALLS and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union, the French Development Agency or Global Affairs Canada. This activity is part of the Global Consortium for Death Penalty Abolition, a civil society-led initiative aiming to amplify the voice and influence of the abolitionist movement on a global scale with the support of the European Union under a Financial Framework Partnership Agreement (FFPA) and the Global Affairs Canada's project on gender and the death penalty, which aims to promote a gender-sensitive abolitionist struggle.
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