On February 11, 2011, a symposium will be held at the Vermont Law School in South Royalton to explore current issues in capital punishment. Entitled New Perspectives on Capital Punishment, the symposium will address the death penalty from the point of view of scholars, litigators, and educators. The goal of the symposium is to contribute to the vital discourse concerning capital punishment and its human rights implications. It will feature Hugo Adam Bedau, a prominent death penalty scholar. Other speakers include nationally recognized death penalty litigators Mark Olive and Sean O’Brien, lethal injection expert Deborah Denno, constitutional scholar Eric Freedman, acclaimed sociologist Michael Radelet, and international law attorney Sandra Babcock. The symposium will address topics such as Applied Theory and Litigation Strategies and International Law and Capital Punishment.
For more information on the symposium, held in memory of former Vermont faculty member Michael Mello, click here. See more Resources on the death penalty.
- Death Penalty Information Center (2025, March 14). NEW RESOURCES: Symposium in Vermont on Capital Punishment. Retrieved October 4, 2026, from https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resources-symposium-in-vermont-on-capital-punishment
- Death Penalty Information Center. “NEW RESOURCES: Symposium in Vermont on Capital Punishment.” Last modified March 14, 2025. Accessed October 4, 2026. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resources-symposium-in-vermont-on-capital-punishment.
- Death Penalty Information Center. “NEW RESOURCES: Symposium in Vermont on Capital Punishment.” Death Penalty Information Center, 14 Mar. 2025, https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resources-symposium-in-vermont-on-capital-punishment. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.
