Rosenberg son to dicuss the death penalty tonight

Robert Meerpol will discuss “The Death Penalty: The Rosenbergs and Mumia Abu-Jamal,” tonight at 7 p.m. in 147 Education on campus.

Meerpol is the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were convicted of treason for passing nuclear weapon secrets to the Soviet Union and executed in 1953.

Meerpol will also address government persecution, the death penalty and the status of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of killing a police officer and is on death row.

The lecture is sponsored by the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Amnesty International of UW–Madison and the Wisconsin Union Directorate Contemporary Issues Committee.