The ded­i­ca­tion of the National Death Penalty Archive at the State University of New York at Albany will take place on August 9, 2005. Hugo Bedau of Tufts University will keynote the pro­gram, which will also fea­ture William J. Bowers, Scott Christianson, David Kaczynski, and Michael Radelet. The Archive is a part­ner­ship between the Capital Punishment Research Initiative at the School of Criminal Justice and the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives at the University of Albany Libraries. This col­lec­tion of his­tor­i­cal mate­ri­als is an excel­lent resource for schol­ars, stu­dents, and mem­bers of the pub­lic who are inter­est­ed in the his­to­ry of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in America and in the legal and polit­i­cal bat­tles relat­ed to the death penal­ty. Among oth­er resources, the col­lec­tion includes The Hugo Adam Bedau Papers, The William J. Bowers/​Capital Jury Project Collection, The Alvin Ford Collection, and The Joe Ingle/​Southern Coalition on Jails and Prisons Papers. It also includes a pro­gram of oral his­to­ry inter­views fea­tur­ing promi­nent activists and pro­fes­sion­als involved in death penalty work.

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