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title: 'RESOURCES AND RESEARCH: Symposium to Explore the Future of Death Penalty Research'
description: 'A symposium entitled “The Next Generation of Death Penalty Research: Priorities, Strategies, and an Agenda” will be sponsored by the Capital Punishment…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/resources-and-research-symposium-to-explore-the-future-of-death-penalty-research'
section: news
date: '2006-08-14T21:04:18-04:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:24:23-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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A symposium entitled **"The Next Generation of Death Penalty Research: Priorities, Strategies, and an Agenda"** will be sponsored by the [Capital Punishment Research Initiative](https://www.albany.edu/scj/cpri.htm) 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](mailto:symp06@albany.edu) at SUNY-Albany, (518) 442-5214.