Power of forgiveness

Linda Biehl and Ntobeko Peni — one of four men who killed Biehl’s daughter — speak Nov. 9 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom at the School of Law. Peni and three other men were convicted of murdering Amy Biehl in 1993 when she was a Fulbright scholar working in South Africa. After serving five years of their sentence, the four men were granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in a decision that was supported by Amy’s parents. Peni since has become close friends with Linda Biehl and works with the Amy Biehl Foundation Trust in Cape Town, South Africa, which was formed by the Biehl family to encourage education, dialogue and opportunity in an effort to deter violence and curtail poverty in that country. The event was sponsored by the Washington University Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. For more information, visit amybiehl.org.