Jennifer Bishop

Kankakee, Illinois
Board Chair, Murder Victims Family Members for Reconciliation

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	“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.”

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