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.

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