TOPICS AND SPEAKERS IN 2007
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
