The Charlotte School of Law is sponsoring a symposium on “Mental Illness and the Death Penalty: Seeking a ‘Reasoned Moral Response’ to an Unavoidable Condition” on October 20, 2006 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The conference will bring together medical experts, judges, defense attorneys, prosecutors, and other experts to discuss whether current law adequately accounts for the role of mental illness in capital cases. Among those scheduled to speak are James Coleman of Duke University Law School, Ronald Tabak, a leader in the American Bar Association’s involvement with this issue, Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative, and Alyson Kuroski, M.D, Director of Forensic Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine.

See http://www.charlottelaw.org/midpsymposium/ (posted Oct. 3, 2006). See also Mental Illness.