NEW RESOURCES: Symposium: Catholics and the Death Penalty

A recent edi­tion of the Journal of Catholic Legal Studies con­tains arti­cles from a sym­po­sium on ​“Catholics and the Death Penalty: Lawyers, Jurors & Judges.” In addi­tion to a fore­word by Amelia Uelmen and an intro­duc­tion to Catholic teach­ing on cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment by Art Cody, the vol­ume con­tains a pan­el dis­cus­sion with Kevin Doyle, direc­tor of the New York Capital Defender Office, and Charles Hynes, the District Attorney of Kings County (NY). The sym­po­sium con­cludes with a pre­sen­ta­tion on issues relat­ed to Catholic jurors by Gerald Uelmen. (Symposium, 44 Journal of Catholic Legal Studies 277 (2005)). See Law Reviews.