A symposium entitled “The Next Generation of Death Penalty Research: Priorities, Strategies, and an Agenda” will be sponsored by the Capital Punishment Research Initiative of the State University of New York in Albany on October 6 & 7, 2006. Speakers will explore contemporary death penalty laws and practices, and the role of empirical research in changing capital punishment policies. Included in an extensive list of impressive speakers are: David Baldus of the University of Iowa Law School, Hugo Adam Bedau of Tufts University, and Craig Haney of the University of California, Santa Cruz. For further information, contact Michele Fox at SUNY-Albany, (518) 442-5214.