October 10, 2007

World Day against the Death Penalty: Emerging Topics and Trends in Capital Defense

Nicholas Trenticosta, Director, Center for Equal Justice

September 13, 2007

The Andre Thomas Death Penalty Case: Serious Mental Illness on Trial (or not?)

Cliff Anderson, Senior Attorney, Dorsey & Whitney

July 18, 2007

The First Mental Retardation Death Sentence Commuted to Life in Alabama

Bruce Manning, Associate, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, L.L.P.

May 31, 2007

The Federal Death Penalty

Stephen J. Cribari, Professor, University of Minnesota Law School

March 15, 2007

Explaining the Roots of Wrongful Convictions to Readers: Texas v. Kerry Max Cook

David Hanners, Reporter, Saint Paul Pioneer Press

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS IN 2006

September 19, 2006

A Human Rights Perspective on Recent Challenges to Lethal Injection

Laura Young, Wellstone Fellow, Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

July 12, 2006

Putting The Criminal Justice System On Trial: The Habeas Corpus Challenge

Eric Jorstad, Partner, Intellectual Property Group, Faegre & Benson

May 10, 2006

The European View on the Death Penalty in the Context of the War on Terror

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Professor, University of Ulster

March 15, 2006

Abolishing the Death Penalty: The Impact of Legal Breakthroughs in Mental Retardation Cases

Robert Perske, Author

January 31, 2006

Opining on Death:  Witness Sentence Recommendations in Capital Trials

Professor Wayne A. Logan, William Mitchell College of Law

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS IN 2005

November 15, 2005

State v. Gunsby: An Examination of the Many Ways the Death Penalty System Can Go Wrong

Judge Bruce A. Peterson

September 15, 2005

18 Years on Texas Death Row....And Counting

Jeffrey J. Keyes, Shareholder, Briggs and Morgan, PA

July 27, 2005

The Use and Misuse of DNA Evidence - Inside the Houston Crimelab Scandal

Christine Funk, Public Defenders Office

May 24, 2005

Roper v. Simmons, Lethal Injection and Other Systemic Challenges to the Administration of the Death Penalty

Sandra Babcock, Attorney

March 17, 2005

The International Abolition Movement: Ending the Death Penalty in Sierra Leone

Reginald Fynn, 2004-2005 Humphrey Fellow

January 24, 2005

An Overview of the Federal Death Penalty

Joseph Margulies, MacArthur Justice Center, University of Chicago Law School

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS IN 2004

September 27, 2004

Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA

Kirk Bloodsworth, Advisor, Campaign for Criminal Justice Reform, Criminal Justice Reform Education Fund

Tim Junkin, Attorney

July 15, 2004

Jeremiah Jackson v. State of Alabama: Making Atkins v. Virginia Matter

Bruce D. Manning, Associate, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, L.L.P.

Brooke Tassoni, Associate, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, L.L.P.

May 20, 2004

Stories from Death Row: Representing Capital Defendants 

Jeffrey J. Keyes, Shareholder, Briggs and Morgan, PA

Steven J. Wells, Partner Dorsey & Whitney

March 18, 2004

Breaking with Tradition: The Proposed Death Penalty Legislation in Minnesota

Representative Keith Ellison

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS IN 2003

November 13, 2003

Litigation Before the International Court of Justice in Mexico v. United States

Sandra Babcock, Attorney

September 24, 2003

Death Penalty Project: Progress Through Past, Present & Future

Roundtable discussion