NightSide - Goddard College Invites Cop Killer To Speak

BOSTON (CBS) - Goddard College may be a small school, but it's making some big waves in the headlines after announcing an upcoming commencement speaker. The students at Goddard choose their own speaker, and for this Sunday's fall graduation ceremony, the students picked Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of killing twenty-five year old police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. For Abu-Jamal, this will be his third commencement speech, which will be pre-recorded and then played for the students on Sunday. Faulkner's widow says the choice is "despicable," and hopes the decision will somehow be reversed. What do you think? Do the students have a right to choose whoever they'd like as a speaker? Or is it wrong to give this man a platform and a voice?

Originally broadcast October 2nd, 2014.