Palmetto Journey of Hope 2025: Central UMC in Spartanburg
Wed, Oct 29
|Central UMC--Spartanburg
Join us for a conversation about the death penalty with Moses Peterson, a death row survivor, and Yvonne Patterson Johnson, a murder victim family member and death row family member.
Time & Location
Oct 29, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Central UMC--Spartanburg, 233 N Church St, Spartanburg, SC 29306, USA
Guests
About the event
The Palmetto Journey of Hope is a collaboration between SCADP and Journey of Hope...From Violence to Healing. It is a speaking series empowering the voices of murder victim family members towards the abolition of the death penalty. Together with other anti-death penalty voices (former death row residents, death row family members, department of corrections employees, capital defense lawyers, and law enforcement), the Journey of Hope has sparked legislative change across the country.
About the Speakers:
Moses Peterson a returning citizen from a thirty-eight-year prison journey (two of which were spent on South Carolina’s death row). Originally from Florence, he describes himself as a determined individual, open to adapting and adjusting to new learning. These days, he is focused on sharing his story to make a positive difference with people. You can often hear him saying to others, “Our past is not our future.”
When he’s not sharing his story, he loves…