Amicus, an orga­ni­za­tion based in the United Kingdom that assists in the legal rep­re­sen­ta­tion of those await­ing cap­i­tal tri­als in the United States, will be host­ing a mock tri­al at the Emmanuel Centre (pic­tured) in Westminster, London on Tuesday, March 2, begin­ning at 6:30 PM. The ques­tion is whether the death penal­ty in the U.S. per­verts the course of jus­tice. The tri­al will be presided over by Lord Woolf, Geoffrey Robertson, QC, and Sir Louis Blom-Cooper, QC, and will fea­ture promi­nent death penal­ty experts includ­ing Prof. Paul Cassell (for­mer fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tor and for­mer law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia), Prof. Robert Blecker (NY Law School) and Kent Scheidegger (Criminal Justice Legal Fdn.) defend­ing the death penal­ty, and Prof. Julian Killingley (Birmingham City Univ.), Rev. Cathy Harrington (Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation), and Nick Trenticosta (Center for Equal Justice) pros­e­cut­ing the death penal­ty. The pro­gram hopes to raise aware­ness of issues sur­round­ing the appli­ca­tion of the death penal­ty in the United States. Click here for more details about his event.

(Posted Feb. 19, 2010; infor­ma­tion from Amicus). See also International.

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