JENNIFER BISHOP
JOURNEY
OF HOPE...
from violence to healing™
JENNIFER BISHOP IS CHAIR OF
THE BOARD FOR
MURDER VICTIM'S FAMILIES FOR RECONCILIATION
“Our sister Nancy and her
husband Richard were a young couple expecting their first child when they were
shot to death in their home. They
loved and valued life; our sister was carrying life within her when she died a
terrifying and brutal death. Her
last act as she was dying was to write a message of love in her blood.
We can’t imagine making the death of another human being her
memorial.”
Kankakee, Illinois
Profile:
Nancy Bishop Langert, 25,
and her husband, Richard Langert, 30, were murdered in 1990 in Winnetka,
Illinois. A local teenager broke
into their home, waited for them to arrive, terrorized them at gun point, then
shot them to death. Nancy was three
months pregnant at the time.
Jennifer Bishop adored her
sister, Nancy. She and Jeanne have
chosen to honor her life through activism against handguns and the culture of
violence that led to her death, of which they believe the death penalty is a
part. Both are active in the death
penalty abolition movement, serving as board members of the Illinois Coalition
Against the Death Penalty and as national speakers against the death penalty
through the Amnesty International Speaker’s Bureau and Journey of Hope.
Both are members of Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation.
Jennifer teaches in junior
high and high school gifted programs, and lives with her husband and children in
the Chicago area.
Reprinted with permission from Not In Our Name: Murder Victims Families Speak Out Against the Death Penalty, a publication of Murder Victims Families For Reconciliation, Barbara Hood & Rachel King, Editors; MVFR
FAVORITE JOURNEY SITES FOR JENNIFER:
To Forgive, Divine -- Chicago Tribune Magazine
Rally Call for End to Death Penalty
A Long Healing Process -- Murder victims' families describe their struggle to rebuild lives, By Stephen Gawlik
Interview with Jennifer Bishop (Audio)
Op-Ed -- By Jennifer Bishop
JENNIFER AND HER SISTER JEANNE WERE
ON THE FIRST JOURNEY IN 1993
