TWO FORMER DEATH ROW INMATES TO DISCUSS STRUGGLE TO WIN THEIR FREEDOM AT NYU LAW COLLOQUIUM

Thursday, March 29 --CLE Credits Available

The Review of Law and Social Change at New York University School of Law will host an all-day colloquium about the death penalty entitled, “Meting Out Justice: Finality, Fairness & the Death Penalty”

One of the program’s highlights will be the revelations of two former death row inmates--one of whom was proven innocent by DNA evidence after coming within hours of being executed and the other who was on death row for 16 years and came within 7 hours of being executed before a parole board commuted his sentence to life--who will talk candidly about their experiences with the administration of the death penalty, and with life on death row and beyond.

The event will take place on Thursday, March 29, at the NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South, Greenberg Lounge. Admittance is free to students, practitioners, or educators in the field. Others pay $10. Registration begins at 9:00 AM.

Panel I, 9:30 AM -- Due Process in Capital Litigation

Panel II, 11:30 AM – Politics, Media & (Mis)conceptions about the Death Penalty

Panel III, 2:15 PM – Who Are We Executing?

Keynote, 4:00 PM – “Life After Death Row” – will feature three former death row inmates.

Participants include David Baldus from the University of Iowa, Ray Bonner from The New York Times, Lajuana Davis from the Equal Justice Initiative, New York State Supreme Court Justice Anne Feldman; George Kendall from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Diann Rust-Tierney from the ACLU Capital Punishment Project, Wayne Smith from The Justice Project, and Russell Stetler from the New York Capital Defender Office.

Up to 5 CLE credits will be available. RSVP to Jennie Dorn (212-998-6397/ jennie.dorn@nyu.edu) or Laura Smith (212-998-6355) laura.smith@nyu.edu), Managers, NYU Law Journals.

03/21/01