Death Penalty Information Center and Veteran Advocacy Project
Webinar Series on
Veterans and the Death Penalty

Registration

November 9 – 19, 2020

Co-Sponsored by Advancing Real Change and Witness to Innocence

To register to attend a session, click on the session links below.

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

To register to attend Veterans on Death Row, click here.

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

To register to attend Representing Veterans in Capital Cases — Special Issues in Investigating and Presenting Veterans’ Mitigation, click here.

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

To register to attend The Military Death Penalty — Capital Punishment Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, click here.

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

To register to attend Mental Health Issues in Veterans’ Capital Cases, click here.

Veterans, Race, and the Death Penalty — Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific

To register to attend Veterans, Race, and the Death Penalty, click here.

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

To register to attend Wrongful Capital Convictions of Military Veterans, click here.