Death Penalty Information Center and Veteran Advocacy Project
Webinar Series on
Veterans and the Death Penalty
Agenda
November 9 – 19, 2020
Co-Sponsored by Advancing Real Change and Witness to Innocence
Veterans on Death Row (Kickoff event) — Monday, Nov. 9, 2020, 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific
- Art Cody, Esq., Captain, US Navy (Ret.), Director, Criminal Programs, Veteran Advocacy Project
- Richard Dieter, Esq., Principal Consultant, RDieter Communications, author of DPIC’s report, Battle Scars: Military Veterans and the Death Penalty
- Robert Dunham, Esq., Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center
Representing Veterans in Capital Cases — Special Issues in Investigating and Presenting Veterans’ Mitigation — Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific
- Art Cody, Esq., Captain, US Navy (Ret.), Director, Criminal Programs, Veteran Advocacy Project
- Brock Hunter, Esq., co-founder and President of the Veterans Defense Project; co-author, The Attorney’s Guide to Defending Veterans in Criminal Court
- Teresa Norris, Esq., Special Assistant Public Defender, Charleston County Public Defender’s Office, capital defense and former JAG Corps lawyer
- Judge Robert Russell, Associate Judge, Buffalo City Court; Acting Erie County, N.Y., Court Judge; created the country’s first “Veterans’ Treatment Court”
- Robert Dunham, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center, moderator
The Military Death Penalty — Capital Punishment Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice — Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific
- Jonathan Potter, Esq., Lieutenant Colonel, US Army (Ret.), Chief, Capital and Complex Litigation, US Army Defense Appellate Division
- Dwight Sullivan, Esq., Colonel, US Marine Corps Reserve (Ret.), Civilian Counsel, Air Force Appellate Defense Division
- Art Cody, Esq., Captain, US Navy (Ret.), Director, Criminal Programs, Veteran Advocacy Project, moderator
Mental Health Issues in Veterans’ Capital Cases — Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, 3:00 p.m. Eastern/12:00 p.m. Pacific
- Jerid M. Fisher, Ph.D., Forensic Neuropsychologist specializing in traumatic brain injury
- Victoria Reynolds, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist specializing in complex trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder
- Edward J. Ungvarsky, Esq., Ungvarsky Law, PLLC, criminal and capital defense lawyer
- Stephen N. Xenakis, MD, Brigadier General, US Army (Ret.), Medical Director for Head Injury, Psychiatry & Neurology, Center for Translational Medicine
- Robert Dunham, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center, moderator
Veterans, Race, and the Death Penalty — Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific
- Gilbert King, Pulitzer-prize winning author of Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
- Ngozi Ndulue, Esq., Death Penalty Information Center, Senior Director of Research and Special Projects, author of DPIC’s report, Enduring Injustice: The Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty, moderator
- Jennifer Taylor, Esq., Equal Justice Initiative, editor and contributing author of EJI’s report, Targeting Black Veterans: Lynching in America
Wrongful Capital Convictions of Military Veterans — Death-Row Exonerees Tell Their Stories — Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific
- Kirk Bloodsworth (Marines), death-row exoneree, Maryland
- Ray Krone (Air Force), death-row exoneree, Arizona
- Ralph “Ron” Wright (Air Force), death-row exoneree, Florida
- Robert Dunham, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center, moderator