Today CAN brings you a story of discovery and transformation from the Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project in Alamosa, Colorado. The Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project, an initiative of the Death Penalty Discourse Network based in New Orleans, La., offers stage rights to Tim Robbins' play "Dead Man Walking" to high schools and colleges who agree to incorporate the issue of the death penalty into their curriculum. So far the project has collaborated with 60 schools. CAN asked a team from rural Colorado's Adams State College to write about their experience. Cast members Shelly Johnson and Jared Williams talk about the life-changing challenge of playing Sister Helen Prejean and death-row inmate Matt Poncelet. Director John Taylor writes about how the ASC coordinating committee involved 3,500 of Alamosa's 8,000 residents in related discussions, debates, book clubs, exhibitions, public art, a reconciliation-and-forgiveness symposium and more. [LINK]