Conference to Address Mental Illness and the Death Penalty

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​.char​lot​telaw​.org/​m​i​d​p​s​y​m​p​o​sium/ (post­ed Oct. 3, 2006). See also Mental Illness.