Scott Turow, an attorney and best-selling author of Presumed Innocent and eight other books, will be this year’s Tresolini Lecturer. Turow’s talk, at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, in Zoellner Arts Center’s Baker Hall, is titled “Confessions of a Death Penalty Agnostic.”
It is free, open to the public, and no tickets are required.
The talk is expected to provide a balanced view of the volatile topic of capital punishment. A former prosecutor, Turow reluctantly supported the death penalty but came to a different point of view following his experiences as a defense lawyer and a member of the Illinois Capital Punishment Commission.
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The author of several award-winning books of fiction and non-fiction, Turow has also frequently contributed essays and op-ed pieces to magazines and newspapers. His books have been translated into more than 25 languages and have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide.
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